Word: mao
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...before moving to the U.S. in 1989. Her husband, linguist Lawrence A. Walker, is the English translator of her first book published in America. Yan wanted to switch to writing in English but found the transition difficult. "The youth of my generation," she says, "was wasted in reciting from Mao's Little Red Book. I learned English rather late. As for Chinese, I already had my own style." Just last year, after living in the U.S. for more than a decade, Yan began screenwriting for Hollywood in English...
...most strange, despite his effort in recent years to appear less so. Before he ascended to power, when his predecessor and father Kim Il Sung died in 1994, he was regarded outside North Korea as something of a joke--a pampered playboy who, with his Mao-era leisure suits, puffed-up coiffure and shoe lifts, would likely falter in his father's footsteps. Though he's maintained his singular sense of style, Kim has lessened his reputation for kookiness. The first time the outside world got a good look at him, in June 2000 when he summited with South Korean...
Welcome to Wal-Mart in China, where the late Sam Walton has a new image: the Mao of retailing. There, as in Walton's home state of Arkansas, having the right merchandise is paramount. So the store in Shenzhen, just north of Hong Kong, is crowded with tanks of crabs, fish, frogs and shrimp, which can be taken home wiggling or be expertly gutted and cleaned on the spot...
...tell you the story of his great march forward from humble rural roots to become a great leader. And by the way, would you like us to skin that frog for you? Welcome to Wal-Mart in China, where the late Sam Walton has a new image: the Mao of retailing. And where, as in Arkansas, stocking exactly the right merchandise is still paramount. So the store in Shenzhen, just north of Hong Kong, is crowded with tanks of crabs, fish, frogs and shrimp, which can be taken home wiggling or be expertly gutted and cleaned on the spot...
...whose parents left the mainland following Mao Zedong’s rise to power, said he would be on the side of the Taiwanese public and focus on Taipei’s problems, not the province?...