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...immigrant, as part of the Chinese-American community, and as a minority, I cannot deny the needs of my community," said Yaping Joyce Liao '91 of the newly-revived Radcliffe Asian Women's Group (RAWG). Liao, who emigrated from Taiwan at age 12, told the 100-member audience that her organization was proud to support the legislation...
...Boston Legal Services, Local 26 and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in backing the legislative efforts of CPAWC, a Chinatown based community organization. RAWG, the only area student group actively involved in the lobbying effort, participated with CPAWC in Harvard's multi-ethnic VISIONS conference in February, said Liao...
...Take bloc authority," Liao went on. "That meant the provincial governments did the trading and marketing. Villages in north Jiangsu, for example, raise tomatoes, so they need bamboo staves to make the wicker tepees that hold tomatoes up. Anhui [just across the border] had surplus bamboo. But tomato farmers in Jiangsu couldn't get any bamboo from Anhui because that crossed a provincial border. That's bloc authority...
...another old-guard Communist tell what he found when he was restored to power. Liao Zhili, 68, now deputy director of the State Commission for Restructuring the Economic System, was sent down from 1968 to 1978. Liao grew animated as he told of China as left by the Cultural Revolution...
...Chen's import franchise fell into her lap when she got a visa to visit relatives in China last year. Liao Chia-Jeng, a brother who was killed in the Shanghai Rising of 1928, had become a popular Communist hero. When Chinese officials realized that Liao was her brother, they let her travel unescorted throughout the country for two months, asked her to be an adviser to the Chinese Board of Trade and granted her the import concession...