Word: hunan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprisingly, the flood of new wealth has begun to produce a Chinese version of the affluent society. At the Xiang Jiang state farm near Mao's birthplace in Hunan province, which was renowned a dozen years ago for its spartan housing and inadequate sanitation, TV antennas now protrude from rooftops and pop music blares from tape recorders. Local Party Secretary Qiu Huaisheng proudly points out that "of the 200 households, 126 have bought TV sets and 112 own cassette recorders." Sometimes, however, the peasants' purchases, as well as their entrepreneurial skills, are both illicit and posilively profligate. A group...
...Hunan, on Mass Ave., Joyce Chen, on Mass Ave., and Lucky Garden, on Concord Ave. lead the pack in the hotly contested race for the hearts of Cambridge's sinophiles. Yenching, also on Mass Ave. Wei Ta, on Winthrop St., and Ta Chien, on Eliot are all adequate The Hong Kong is still for scorpion bowls, not egg footing, its routed new chef notwithstanding And Yung and Yee on Church St is still unknown by most Cantabrigians not without good cause...
...fact, there already is such an audience, and as Luke was beginning his ad ventures on the air, the CBS Radio Mystery Theater was celebrating a kind of anniversary by sending out its 2,500th broadcast. Started in 1974 by Hunan Brown, whose own radio career dates back to 1929, Mystery Theater has presented everything from Dr. Jekylland...
...Peking neighborhood, residents have been instructed to turn in their old Mao badges to local authorities. In the late Chairman's home town of Shaoshan in Hunan province, a hotel built to accommodate a crush of reverent pilgrims stands empty and silent. In Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, the municipal party committee has decided to tear down the huge central statue of Mao that was built in 1968 with funds that had originally been earmarked for a sports center. Signs of a careful, calculated effort by China's current leadership to reduce the status of the once venerated...
Oriental food has its place in the sun. You can find it at Yenching at Harvard Square, Joyce Chen's at Fresh Pond, Hunan, Kabuki and Colleen's in Central Square, Ta Chien across from the Kennedy School, and Hong Kong on Mass Ave. Try Hong Kong's "scorpion bowl." Trust...