Word: mandarinism
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...Jenny Lo, 43, executive producer, British Broadcasting Corporation's Marshall Plan of the Mind Project. Lo intends to pursue courses in leadership development at the Business School, a Central Asian language or Mandarin Chinese, and the history of art or music...
DIED. TERESA TENG, 43, Taiwanese pop singer; after suffering an asthma attack in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Though Beijing banned her Mandarin love songs as "spiritual pollution" in the 1980s, fans snatched up recordings smuggled in through Hong Kong; it was said that "Little Teng" was more popular than "Old Deng" Xiaoping...
...prisoner on the Marne. The horrors of the trenches made him want to flee Europe altogether. In prison camp, he found books on Eastern civilization by Ernest Fenollosa and Lafcadio Hearn; at war's end, he enrolled at the Slade School in London and took classes in Japanese and Mandarin. In 1929, penniless, he managed to reach Shanghai. For the next few years he was able to study Chinese art and writing at first hand, painting landscapes and street scenes (none of which survive), getting...
Xiao Qian, a Beijing writer and translator reflecting on his first reading of James Joyce's Ulysses, which he had translated into Mandarin Chinese with his wife. Xiao, who shares a sentiment with countless readers of Joyce, was quoted in the Boston Globe on March...
Approximately 200 people crowded into Boylston Auditorium for the lecture. Lin, currently a consultant for Wang Computers, conducted the lecture in Mandarin, which was then translated for the audience...