Word: kun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drive to tear up all roots that bind China to Western culture, many top artists and performers are going through the same hell that Ma did. It was reported that Liu Shih-kun, topflight pianist and runner-up to Van Cliburn at the Moscow Tchaikovsky festival in 1958, had his wrists broken by Red Guards. Hung Hsien-nu, Canton's best-known opera singer, was tried by kangaroo courts, had her hair bobbed, and now works sweeping floors. Chou Hsin-fang, star of the Peking opera, and elderly Author Lao She (known in the West for Rickshaw Boy) have...
Better Luck Next Time. In Hong Kong, while walking down a hall to his apartment, Law Kun-suk tore a pair of panties from an overhead line because it is supposed to be bad luck to walk under them, was clouted over the head by the irate owner, next day received a six-week jail sentence for property destruction...