Word: kingdome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...independence from outside resources. Chinese managers have heretically embraced such impure capitalist devices as meritocratic promotions and other special treatment for their best and brightest. A people that has traditionally regarded all foreigners as barbarians has opened its gates to the outer world; 530,000 tourists visited the Middle Kingdom last year. So did thousands of capitalists dowsing for new markets and investments in this promising territory. Perhaps the two most startling pieces of symbolic revisionism: the Chinese are planning to construct a golf course on the outskirts of Peking, and have given Coca-Cola exclusive rights to sell...
...wa11 that has so long imprisoned China in its immense, opaque privacy collapsed so fast that some imaginations projected a regretful vision of the Middle Kingdom overrun by Instamatics and McDonald's. (In fact, the Chinese have consulted McDonald's executives about possible fast-food techniques for use in China.) Inter-Continental Hotels plans to build within three years a chain of 1,000-room hotels, complete with swimming pools and saunas, in Peking Canton, Shanghai and other major cities. Hyatt International has proposed the construction of hotels with a total capacity of 10,000 rooms. Pan American and several...
This land "of delicate, delectable emptiness," named for a vanished biblical kingdom, is also rife with American influence. Racial mixing can produce beautiful results; cultural miscegenation tends toward ludicrous juxtapositions. The snap of bubble gum is heard in the Koran school. Fashionably oversize sunglasses are worn by women in purdah while their denimed daughters in platform shoes kick up the dust in the streets of Istiqlal, the capital. Down in the slums the click of cal abashes and the muezzin's call to prayer compete with an alien rhythm, "with words, repeated in the tireless ecstasy of religious chant...
...report on human rights in China, charging that political prisoners are routinely starved, put in chains and held in solitary confinement. Trials are, said Amnesty, a mere formality-"in fact, meetings to announce the sentence." On this issue, at least, there may be hope for comrades of the Middle Kingdom. Peking's People's Daily has just completed a series of articles arguing that if the Four Modernizations are to be achieved, China needs new commercial, criminal and civil codes. The official news agency has reported that quasi-independent "procuratorates," vaguely similar to U.S. grand juries, have been...
Peking may never rival Paris as a fixture on the international travel circuit, but the gradual parting of the Bamboo Curtain in the 1970s has enabled more and more foreigners to see the wonders of the Middle Kingdom. This year, 100,000 foreign tourists and businessmen-including 15,000 Americans?will visit China, and next year the total could double. What most visitors bring back, besides snapshots of the Great Wall and the Ming Tombs, are horror stories about the accommodations. Hotel rooms are hard to get, ah" conditioning is rare, and such Western amenities as bars, saunas and swimming...