Word: hsin
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...applicants are accepted--approximately half are interested in a field of the humanities and half in politics and economics. Among the noted members of the politics and economics section this year are Carlos Garcia, Justice of the Argentinian Supreme Court; Hannes Androsch, member of the Austrian Parliment; Luke Kai-hsin Chin, editor of "Chinese Communist Affairs" and Mohaned Berjaoui, Lebanese ambassador and former member of Parliament...
...Shih-kun, topflight pianist and runner-up to Van Cliburn at the Moscow Tchaikovsky festival in 1958, had his wrists broken by Red Guards. Hung Hsien-nu, Canton's best-known opera singer, was tried by kangaroo courts, had her hair bobbed, and now works sweeping floors. Chou Hsin-fang, star of the Peking opera, and elderly Author Lao She (known in the West for Rickshaw Boy) have disappeared and are believed to be either dead or toiling in remote labor camps. Mao's China is indeed a land where, as Ma Ssu-tsung...
Other victims were the usual intellectuals and teachers, whose mortality rate has always been high in China: Ho Luting, president of the Shanghai Musical College and composer of The East Is Red; Philosopher Feng Ting of Peking University; Opera Singer Chou Hsin-fang (rumored to have committed suicide). Even President Liu Shao-chi, 68, who had long been listed as Mao's most likely successor, was dropped from his No. 2 spot to a distant eighth in the succession ratings. Events reached a climax at last month's secret Central Committee meeting, from which Lin emerged even more...
...rest of Red China, it was quite an inspiration. In all units of the Chinese armed forces, shouts of "Long live Chairman Mao" rose from the ranks. One platoon leader, Liu Hsin-fa, breathlessly declared to his unit, "I saw Chairman Mao swimming. He is in excellent health!" With the typical enthusiasm of the enlisted man about such tidings, his buddies chorused, "We feel as happy as you do." Not to be outdone by the military, workers at the Harbin locomotive and rolling stock plant overfulfilled their quotas five to twelve hours ahead of schedule at the news...
...current Mao-knows-best school of Chinese journalism. The Moscow editors reprinted the article from a Chinese paper without comment, presumably because its title fully signaled its inanity: "Let Us Speak of the Philosophic Questions of Selling Watermelons in Big Cities." The author, Shanghai Fruit Store Manager Chou Hsin-li, explained how he had solved the problem of selling his melons before they rotted by referring to the writings of Mao Tse-tung for guidance...