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Deng's sweeping vision for China is all the more remarkable for his lack of intellectual pretense. Unlike the late Mao Tse-tung, his mentor and eventual nemesis, Deng has never claimed to be either a scholar or a Marxist theoretician. Nor does he possess the studied mandarin sophistication of the late Premier Chou En-lai, another longtime comrade-in-arms. Not that Deng lacks for a keen intelligence or a world view. But what he has consistently sought to impose is a preference for gradual rather than sudden change and for pragmatism over doctrine. In discussing China's second...
...East Asian Studies concentrator at Harvard, Lowe wrote a thesis on Tang poetry and spent time in China learning Mandarin before working for Let’s Go. His love for the city life—“lights, music, and fun”—was transferred from London to Boston, where he would frequently leave campus to go clubbing and “go missing” for days on end. And though eight performances a week in the West End tempered his passion for professional theater, Lowe jumped at the chance to experiment with...
...really have language and experience to share.” They talked about the sometimes difficult transition from what Ms. Gu describes as the “homogenous Chinese society to the diverse Western society” and enjoyed conversing with each other in a mixture of English, Mandarin, and Shanghai dialect...
...look and dress like me." There aren't a lot of people like him, period. Coleman grew up in Dallas and Forth Worth, Texas, loving Guns N' Roses, Charlie Daniels and Run D.M.C. He majored in psychology at the University of Texas, speaks six languages (including Russian and Mandarin), is a few hours short of a master's degree in economics and spent nine years as a human-resources consultant. "I think of myself as a pretty unique dude," says Coleman. "But if you've been to a country bar recently and seen people dance to a George Strait song...
...what put into them, and then being packed off home with no follow-up." Willie and Rein have received hundreds of messages from well-wishers but had no contact with Huang's team since their return, except for an mri scan sent to them with an e-mail in Mandarin...