Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pian, who has taught at Harvard since 1947, was a visiting professor of music at Hong Kong's Chung Chi College last year...
...Just arrived," proclaims the large, handwritten sign, "new supply of nylon cloth from Taiwan. Come in and buy some." That notice would be passed without a second glance in Hong Kong or Singapore. Pasted up in front of a ramshackle department store in Xiamen's main town square, it is a striking sign of changing times. Largely because of its geographical proximity to Taiwan, Fujian province has become the focus of an active campaign by the Peking government to open up contacts with the prospering island...
...mainland fishermen, who frequently share the same fishing grounds. According to residents of Xiamen, the trade includes soap, towels and watches (often with fake Swiss markings) from Taiwan and gold (sometimes also fake) from the mainland. If that first shipment of nylon from Taiwan-which came indirectly via Hong Kong-is any indication, Taiwan could have a significant future market in Fujian. In less than two weeks, the shipment was 90% sold, despite a stiff price of $10 a meter...
...already rolling off the presses on a Sunday five weeks ago when the exiled Shah of Iran quietly boarded a plane in Panama for his newest sanctuary in Egypt. Normally, such a late-breaking development would have to go unreported in those copies of the magazine produced in faraway Hong Kong. But no more. Only a week earlier TIME had begun transmitting its pages to the Far East at lightning speed via RCA'S Satcom II and the Comsat Intelsat IV, communications satellites some 20,000 miles above earth. Supplanting a dizzying combination of Hong Kong-bound planes, couriers...
TIME'S Hong Kong connection is the latest breakthrough in a continuing campaign to speed the magazine's production and distribution processes. Last summer we introduced a computerized composition system that sets type, combines it with black-and-white pictures and produces a finished page ready for the presses, a process that is used to take many hands and many hours. Also last summer, TIME began to eliminate its dependence on conventional transportation by sending completed pages by telephone line simultaneously to computers in our U.S. printing plants and to one in The Netherlands, where copies for Europe...