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...CHING by Lao Tsu. Translated by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English. Unpaged. Knopf. $7.95. The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese collection of short verses supposedly written by an almost certainly mythical sage named Lao Han or Lao Tsu about 2,500 years ago. This title means "The Classic of the Power of the Way." According to the jacket of this edition, an overfancy one gussied up with photographs (fog, snow, twigs, grass) and Chinese calligraphy, the Tao Te Ching has been translated more frequently than any book except the Bible. One reason is its poetic strength and simplicity...
...Southeast Asia, the U.S. State Department has long been following the operations of one Lo Hsing-han, a Chinese of mysterious background who is said to enjoy absolute rule over drugs in the mountainous region of Burma, Thailand and Laos known as the Golden Triangle, the richest poppy-growing area in the world and the source of the Asian heroin now reaching the U.S. in growing quantities...
...variety into the arts on the principle of Mao Tse-tung's famous maxim: "Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend." Wuhan radio announced that 100 "experimental works of creative art" were performed at the Hupei Arts Festival last month, including Peking opera, Han opera, Chu opera, ballet, theatrical plays and mountain songs...
...clerkes han with-inne...
...They wolde han writen...