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Political upheaval in China is "inevitable and not far in the future," said Chinese-American writer Bette Bao Lord during a speech yesterday at Longfellow Hall...

Author: By Matthew A. Light, | Title: Author Predicts Unrest in China | 11/2/1990 | See Source »

...Lord, who is an author of several best-selling books and wife of former U.S. ambassador to China Winston Lord, gave Radcliffe's second annual Rothschild Lecture on the topic, "Great Walls: Stories of Chinese Women Opening Doors...

Author: By Matthew A. Light, | Title: Author Predicts Unrest in China | 11/2/1990 | See Source »

Born in Shanghai, Lord emigrated to the U.S. as a child. In 1985, she again came to China, this time moving to Beijing...

Author: By Matthew A. Light, | Title: Author Predicts Unrest in China | 11/2/1990 | See Source »

Furthermore, staffers say the apostrophe in "Lord's" is different from standard Review style, and Pritchett recalls past incidents in which editors have discovered mysterious insertions of foul language in the paper's articles. The case for sabotage is plausible, if not convincing...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Give the Review Another Chance | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

Moreover, much as the survival of the Soviet Union in its present form is threatened by unrest among its non-Russian minorities, the Ottoman Empire ultimately could not withstand the nationalist aspirations of its non-Turkish peoples. The Greeks, aided by the English Romantic poet Lord Byron, were the first to break away in the 1820s. The last to revolt were the Arabs. Inspired by Lawrence of Arabia, they broke free of Ottoman domination during World War I, only to come under British and French rule soon afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: Shaky Empires, Then and Now | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

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