Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lord added that widespread anger at the corruption of the Communist government fueled the protests...
...Everyone encountered corruption when trying to accomplish the smallest task. The Chinese people felt unclean," Lord said...
Although she compared the task of analyzing Chinese politics to "reading tea leaves," Lord said she was confident that the current crackdown on dissent would not prove effective in the long...
Addressing the position of women in China, Lord said that many of them initially embraced Communism as a possible solution to the problem of their inequality. Before the communist revolution, "they were praised for not being seen or heard," she said...
...Lord said that Chinese women have an arduous life which usually includes a full-time job that is "rarely of their own choosing" and that rarely has any future. She added that because of their experience, Chinese women "would not rally behind feminist slogans" and "would choose to stay home" from work if their families did not need "two paychecks...