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...sinister" widow Chiang Ch'ing; highborn ladies tiptoeing painfully on bound feet and unisex masses marching in bulky Mao jackets; delicately misty watercolors and propaganda posters as crude as comic strips; hundred-year-old eggs and gunpowder; opium dens and Buddhist pagodas; the imperturbable mandarin sage and the fanatical archcriminal Dr. Fu Manchu...
...guest is allowed to break open the potterized poultry with a golden hammer. In Kweilin's Li River Hotel, the aesthetic highlight is a bowl of bouillon on which float three yellow-eyed ducklings made of egg white. The culinary triumph is a sweet-and-sour fresh-water mandarin fish, confected with ham, onion, potato, sausage, mushroom and ginger. It is sculptured to resemble a squirrel, hence the dish is announced in advance by one interpreter as "tree rat," provoking preprandial nausea among several F.F.s...
While reading Ralph Davidson's Letter from the Publisher [Sept 20] I noticed that he said, "Bernstein speaks Mandarin." The Chinese no longer call the language Mandarin. They call it the Peking dialect. I learned this during a trip to China last April...
During a conversation, I mentioned that I had a son-in-law who spoke Mandarin. Our interpreter-guide told us that the Chinese have dropped that class-conscious word...
...York, Staff Writer Richard Bernstein prepared to write his sixth cover story on China. Bernstein speaks Mandarin, studied Chinese culture at Harvard, and has visited the People's Republic. After learning of Mao's death, he said, "I felt a sense of awe as well as a sense of relief. The event the Chinese have been afraid of and have been preparing for has finally occurred. If there is ever going to be a crisis, it will be as a result of this...