Word: kuang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, China has felt the hunger to modernize before. Near the end of the Ch'ing dynasty in 1898, under the Emperor Kuang Hsu, the Chinese tried to imitate the Japanese Emperor Meiji's transformation of Japan, from feudalism in the last half of the 19th century. In the early days of Sun Yat-sen's Republican China, an effort to streamline the society with foreign help ended in a bitter failure that eventually turned China toward puritanical socialism. The Chinese, wrote Historian C.P. FitzGerald, "became disillusioned with the false gods of the West They turned restlessly to some other...
...kuang, 39, and his wife Wang Yen-liu, 36, are field hands on the Ta Li People's Commune near Canton. Country people fare quite well, at least in fertile farming areas. Like all the other peasants in Hao Mei village, the Ch'ens own their own house, a fairly new whitewashed brick building in a row of ten attached tile-roofed dwellings on a narrow lane. Their home, which they share with three daughters, 11, 9 and 4, consists of a small entry hall, large liv ing room and sizable bedroom, small kitchen and back court with...
This excitement doesn't come from witty titles like Dean-Askin's Bottcellis parody. The Dearth of Venus of Ta Kuang Chang's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mouna L a. Nor does it show up in Carlo G. Brogna's paating of a toilet with an accompanying roll of toiled paper tacked to the wall. Julia Allard's say of three mouths-obviously an assignment from a drawing class-is less striking than any of these but also more hosest. Because it's good--she's taken a simple exercise and brought life...
...Soviet countermove was sur prisingly mild, which suggests that the five may actually have been involved in espionage. Last week security agents arrested an obscure Chinese attache, Kuan Heng-kuang, aboard the Chinese-operated Moscow-Peking express at the Si berian city of Irkutsk. The Soviets claimed that the attache had been at tempting "to obtain espionage information of military nature from a Soviet woman." He was promptly ordered out of Russia. Since the diplomat was heading home anyway, the expulsion amounted to no more than a diplomatic gesture...