Word: mandarinize
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Hersey's real story lies with the three major subdivision of Treadup, life after several years spent mastering Mandarin. He skillfully weaves the themes of Western knowledge and Christianity by having his young protagonist bring both to the Chinese at different point in his four-decade career. The science comes from a successful series of lectures throughout the vast country, the arts from two decades of literacy work. While ostensibly his mission was to proselytize. Treadup's Christianity shows most clearly after the Japanese invasion of Northern and coastal China at the end of his life. In different ways, however...
...American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, Ariz., is known worldwide for its preparation of global business managers, and about 25% of almost 1,000 full-time master's candidates are from foreign countries. The school provides instruction in eight tongues, among them Mandarin Chinese and English as a second language; the courses emphasize business terms used in macroeconomics and cross-cultural management. The school also tailors short programs for the special needs of multinational companies like Mitsubishi Electric, which recently sent nine managers and engineers for a 14-week program on English language and American management...
Abel and the friends he cites in this amiably prescriptive work were major importers of mandarin goods. Coming of age in the '20s and '30s, these apprentice high brows were influenced by two intoxicating concepts from Europe: the power of the subconscious as expressed through psychoanalysis, and the possibilities for political change as revealed by Marxism...
...Chinese gong. This one is rung to signal the beginning of tonight's floor show at the Obi Wan Club in Shanghai, 1935. Presenting Miss Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) and her pan-Asian chorus line in a delicious rendition of Cole Porter's Anything Goes-in Mandarin Chinese! At a nearby table, Professor Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is haggling for his life with a trio of Chinese gangsters: the diamond in his possession in return for a vial containing the antidote to a poison he has just swallowed. Gong! another production number commences, with Indy and Willie scrambling...
...professor from the Peking Agricultural College was asked to oversee. Some came from the hotel's own greenhouse, but the canned cranberries had to be flown in from Hong Kong. Other ingredients were home grown: 176 lbs. of beef for the consomme, 440 lbs. of prawns, scallops, Mandarin fish and turbot for the seafood mousse appetizer, 132 lbs. of hearts of palm for the "panda" salad. For dessert: a praline ice cream dish made with 22 lbs. of almonds, 600 eggs, 36 quarts of cream and three bottles of Grand Marnier. Three types of vintage California wines were selected...