Word: mandarinate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began learning his Mandarin while doing graduate work in Chinese history at Harvard in 1966. After writing five cover stories on events in China as a TIME writer from 1973 to 1976, he went to our bureau in Hong Kong. Until last year, when the Peking government began allowing U.S. news organizations to station correspondents in China, American journalists could travel in the country occasionally, but for the most part they had to monitor developments from Hong Kong, through newspapers, broadcasts and talks with returning travelers...
...major segment of the Chinese economy has opened a crack in that wall. The Bank of America's Hong Kong subsidiary has amassed a two-volume, 450-page report (price: $5,000) on the petrochemical industry that provides the first definitive view of a contemporary Chinese industry. Mandarin-speaking and Harvard-trained Anthropologist Robert Silin, 39, compiled the report, making three trips to China...