Word: hsien
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delayed by Peking, which was slow to come through with permission to fly over China. True or not, there was no doubt of Shelepin's chilly reception when his jet touched down at Peking airport en route to Hanoi for a "technical stopover." An unsmiling Finance Minister Li Hsien-nien was on hand to greet the Russian, dapper in a well-cut coat with Persian lamb collar and matching cap. The Chinese had prepared lunch, but the Russians had fore-handedly eaten on the plane, so generalities were exchanged about the weather, and the Ilyushin winged aloft a scant...
Latest victims were two widely respected intellectuals, Central Committee Member Yang Hsien-chen, party the oretician and former president of the elite Higher Party School, and Historian (and onetime English professor) Chou Ku-cheng, whose General History of China has been a standard work for nearly 30 years. Their crime was pure heresy: contradicting Mao's infallible doctrine that "everything tends to divide into two," which is the very foundation for Peking's dialectical battle with Moscow. According to the "one-into-two theory," disputes are never resolved except by force, so that Moscow's cherished concept...
Braving the Forests. Peking, invoking the historical saying, "Hsien ju wei chu [Whoever enters first is master]," makes much the same point as Moscow -but comes up with a different answer. For the Russian territory Peking covets is largely territory that was wrested from the Chinese empire by czarist forces in the 19th century. Land far to the east of Mongolia was settled by such Russians as Explorer Erofei Pavlovich Khabarov, whose band of Cossacks braved wolf-infested forests and Chinese warriors in their conquest 300 years ago. With the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689, Russia's position east...
...Communist states gathered under a festively striped canvas tent, nibbled caviar and quaffed Rumanian champagne and Riesling in mellow tribute to the city's "liberation" by the Red army in 1944. And there, sharing the head table, were none other than Red China's Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien and sly old Anastas Mikoyan, President of the Soviet Union...