Word: hua
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sitting outside a cafe in Nanjing sipping tea, Gao Hua shakes his head. "That is all people are interested in now: looking after their own life-styles, doing things for themselves," says Gao, a professor of history at Nanjing University. "The economic reforms are irreversible," he says, but they are also part of something bigger. "Now is a transitional period in China. There is much disorder; people are waiting for something new." Gao chooses his words carefully. He has been in trouble before for being too outspoken politically. "Only a society of diversity contains the seeds of new life...
...diplomacy, the well-timed gesture can make all the difference. During presummit haggling, National Security Adviser SANDY BERGER warned his Chinese counterpart, Liu Hua Qui, that the ballooning trade deficit with China, $44 billion this year, was going to provoke a mega-political backlash. Liu replied that the deficit had many complex causes, including wrongheaded U.S. export controls. During a break, a frustrated Berger told an aide to buy a present for Liu. When the Chinese official unwrapped it, he found, instead of the traditional vase, a spanking-new Barbie--made in China, of course. Berger razzed him, "I want...
...step into the shoes of the nonagenarians who joined Mao on the Long March and have have ruled the country since 1949. Jiang is the third would-be Deng successor in nearly 15 years, and most Chinese wonder whether he will be any luckier than Mao's chosen heir, Hua Guofeng...
Some businesses have left the area, including Underground Camera, Bennetton, Ching Hua restaurant and Sam Goody's, but for the most part, retailers are eager to get into the Harvard Square market. Those already here remain upbeat about the area's future...
...Union gave out "Chinese placemats" to every student. Actually, these placemats were the tacky, Chinese restaurant variety, the type of which feature a dozen or so animals and tell you that you were born in the "Year of the Pig." Why were these placemats used? Did Ching-Hua Garden and the Hong Kong have an overstock? Other than providing a quick laugh for resturant goers, there is no connection between these mass-produced, simplistic placemats and the Chinese people...