Word: jie
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...History of China. "I didn't know anything about African culture before I started working on Roots," he explains. "If you do hard research, you can fill in your knowledge of any culture." As part of that research, Haley visited Peking's Forbidden City with Pu Jie, the only surviving brother of Emperor Pu Yi, who was deposed in 1911. If Haley was still learning about China, the Chinese seemed to know all about him; Roots has sold over 200,000 copies in translation there. Says he: "I found myself signing more autographs in the Forbidden City than...
...University, but he clearly has not abandoned socialism His expressions of the fervor of past political movements can be excessive, but they reveal an undercurrent of loyalty. The influences shaping this loyalty started at birth. Heng's original given name (in China the family name comes first) was Dien-Jie, or "Good news from Dienbienphu", celebrating the Vietnamese victory over the French in 1954. The political naming of children is the first step in a long process of indoctrination centering on Mao which continues throughout a citizen's life...