Word: mao
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...lucky enough to find a new job as a maid at one of the posh new private schools sprouting outside Beijing, but it's not long before Lin discovers she has no real place in this new world. In another story, "Immortality," the rise and fall of a professional Mao impersonator comes to symbolize China's astounding past century, from decaying empire to totalitarian nightmare to capitalist powerhouse. The story, which won the Paris Review's Plimpton Prize for first fiction, is narrated collectively by the citizens of the impersonator's home village, as if all of them are speaking...
...aunt was a photographer at The Crimson—she once took a picture of the president of the Harvard Republican Club unwittingly sitting in front of a painting of Chairman Mao, and she was nearly booted from the paper. My father didn’t much like this place-—his only untainted memory of Harvard was scoring tickets to Game Six of the 1975 World Series. My mom was in the first class of women to be admitted to the yard, a liberated lady in the era after The Pill and before AIDS...
...Freedom in the bedroom is a novel concept in China, where for decades communist minders dictated most aspects of people's private lives. Dressed in baggy Mao suits?hardly outfits to set the pulse racing?citizens of the People's Republic had to ask permission from local officials on everything from whom to marry to what kind of birth control to use. But these days many Chinese are walking on the wilder side. Sparked by the easing of government control over individual lifestyle choices and the spread of more permissive, Western attitudes toward sex, Chinese are copulating earlier, more often...
...DIED. YAO WENYUAN, 74, the last surviving member of China's Gang of Four, the ring of radical Maoists?led by Mao Zedong's wife Jiang Qing?who directed the jailings, beatings and purges of legions of moderates and other perceived enemies during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s; in a location undisclosed by Chinese officials. Arrested a month after Mao's death, Yao spent 20 years in jail before being released...
...last time a leader, active or retired, provided such insightful answers with the candor, wisdom and honesty that Lee gave TIME. Not once did I feel the slightest hint of prevarication or evasion from Lee. Different people will have different measures of a leader's success, and names like Mao, Deng and Gandhi will always inspire debates about comparative greatness. But the mere fact that Lee can be mentioned in the same breath as those leaders is proof enough of his greatness. That Singapore is small does not diminish the feats of Lee Kuan Yew. To me, he will always...