Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Residents foresee uncontrollable population growth due to the unharnessed in-migration of mainland Americans, particularly of military dependents. There is concern over projected land and housing shortages within the next decade...
Islanders also resent apparent economic exploitation and abuse by mainland businesses which exhaust resources with seemingly little regard for community needs...
...After a six-month vacation on a Bahamas out-island, our first craving, once back on the mainland, was for McDonald's. We even had the taxi driver from the airport stop at one on our way home...
...seemed a cultural crime. In mainland China during the late 1960s, as part of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution, the ancient art of Peking opera was deliberately put to death. The person responsible was Mao's wife, Chinese Cultural Queen Chiang Ching. To Madame Mao, Peking opera was bourgeois, reactionary, too concerned with court life. She replaced it with an unadorned, realistic style of opera that celebrates the struggles of workers, peasants and soldiers against landlords and imperialists. Gone forever, or so it seemed, were the highly stylized music dramas about kings and concubines, scholars and lute...
...company was assembled from recent descendants of pre-Mao mainland opera stars and graduates of the island's five Peking-opera schools. By Nationalist government command, leading performers from several theater and opera troupes were also recruited for the tour. This may pose a problem for those companies, because pressure is already building to make the National Chinese Opera Theater a permanent institution...