Word: hsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from a red-canopied reviewing stand, surrounded by nine fellow African heads of state. Less conspicuous, but equally welcome, were dignitaries representing Zaïre's military suppliers, including U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Edward Mulcahy and China's Education Minister Chou Jung-hsin. In fact, Zaïre, the former Belgian Congo, has good relations with practically everyone in the world except the Russians. Mobutu and Moscow are at odds because they back rival regimes in neighboring Angola...
Occupying prominent front-row seats on the rostrum at the recent National People's Congress were sixteen Chinese leaders, any one of whom could one day rule their country. They are the je-hsin-the Chinese expression for the ambitious, the zealous, the hot-hearted. Most likely to succeed: the diminutive (5 ft.) Teng Hsiao-ping, 70, who has achieved the most spectacular political comeback in Communist China's history. The congress named him first among Chou's twelve Vice Premiers, just two days after the Central Committee had made him a Vice Chairman of the Communist...
...interests than poetry praising Mao or socially conscious tractor drivers did appear last year with the republication of Western classics like Thucydides and such traditional Chinese novels as The Dream of the Red Chamber and Monkey. But contemporary Chinese fiction is still appallingly banal by Western standards. At the Hsin Hua bookstore in Peking's main shopping district, I asked a salesgirl to tell me which of the recently published Chinese novels was reckoned the best. "Take your pick over there," she answered unselfconsciously. "They're all the same...
Imperialist Relic. Hotels in China's Big Three tourist cities are something less than Hiltonish. Peking's Hsin Chiao (New Sojourn) Hotel has scantily furnished but adequately comfortable rooms, most with bath, for the equivalent of $5 a day. while Shanghai's Hoping (Peace) Hotel charges roughly the same. Its rooms and general ambience are much pleasanter. to some Westerners at least, perhaps because the Hoping is a relic of imperialist days. A.P. Tokyo Correspondent John Roderick, who knew the Hoping as the Palace in 1948, found during his visit last April that it was "aging beautifully...
...Hsin Chiao bar, habitues advise visitors to stick to the excellent domestic beer. Chinese champagne ($2 a bottle) is cloyingly sweet, and the fiery mao-tai, a vodka-like spirit distilled from millet that is a favorite formal banquet tipple, reams out the unwary Western esophagus like a Roto-Rooter...