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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mosher, who speaks fluent Cantonese, won a coveted research grant to go to China in 1979 to study a community. The Chinese allowed him the unusual opportunity of choosing where to do his field work. He picked the Starwood Brigade, the ancestral village of his Hong Kong-born wife Maggie So, from whom he is now divorced. Officials even traveled from Peking to tell Brigade leaders to cooperate with Mosher. During the course of his nine-month stay, Mosher put together the most detailed firsthand account of village life in contemporary China by a Western scholar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Battle in the Scholarly World | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...Semester at Sea" program, more than 500 students live on board a special ship and travel and study at 11 different ports including Piracus, Greece: Alexandria, Egypt: Cadiz, Spain: and Hong Kong...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: World Cruise | 3/9/1983 | See Source »

Publicity for the Harvard march was provided by the Hong Kong Restaurant, which paid for several newspaper advertisements...

Author: By Janet A. Titus, | Title: Students Protest Violence on Campus | 3/4/1983 | See Source »

William Lee, general manager of the Hong Kong said that his organization has supported the march for all three years. "Because of the patronization we get from the Harvard community and the large number of women and students working for us, we want to show out concern," explained...

Author: By Janet A. Titus, | Title: Students Protest Violence on Campus | 3/4/1983 | See Source »

Bank Chairman Michael G.R. Sandberg summoned consultants to review the runaway costs, and will await their report in May to decide whether to make cutbacks or modify the design. Still, even in the face of Hong Kong's uncertain future-China could take control when the United Kingdom's lease on much of the crown colony's land expires in 1997-the bank seems determined to build a monument that, says Munden, is more than "just a building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oriental Extravaganza | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

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