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...Year's gift of $70 in cash - one third of a month's salary. Their dinner table is loaded with such tasty holiday treats as lotus root, fresh shrimp and carp, and the hall is festively bedecked with red and gold banners. But Zang's sunburnt skin and his Mao suit and Lenin hat look slightly out of place in this smart Guangzhou hotel with its marble-lined lobby. And despite the generosity of his employer, he confesses, he'd rather be elsewhere - eating a traditional reunion feast with his family in Shanghe county, then maybe watching the New Year...
...came, Zhou preached the digital gospel, educating his pupils in the arts of establishing a blog, posting, taking digital photos and videos, using instant-messaging tools and sites like Flickr, Twitter and Skype - often working with people who had never even turned on a computer before. Isaac Mao, co-founder of Chinese site CNBlog.org, describes Zhou as someone who "represents the beginning of a new trend of Chinese Internet users ... It's brave for him to express his opinion on his blog...
...Xenophon and Díaz warrant mention, where are the likes of Otto von Bismarck, Winston Churchill and Henry Kissinger? Where would our understanding of the rise of Germany be without Bismarck, the diplomatic and military trials of World War II without Churchill, or the Soviets, Mao and Nixon without Kissinger? Their extensive memoirs were written in part to contribute to history, but also as a personal defense against future historians. This dynamic - the statesman as historian - would have been a fascinating one for Burrow to explore...
...least a hint of mutuality in their relationship. China could start by listening to Tibetans like Phuntso Wangye. He founded the first Communist Party in Tibet in 1940, which he merged with the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, and then helped lead Chinese troops into Tibet in 1951. Mao Zedong trusted Wangye so implicitly that he selected him as the translator for his 1954-55 meetings with the Dalai Lama. Today, the 85-year-old Wangye lives in Beijing. He believes that those Tibetan leaders collaborating with Beijing are misleading the Chinese leadership by claiming the Dalai Lama no longer...
...daughter of the ruling elite, trained to never pick up a ringing phone or travel without a driver. She wore traditional dresses and told friends about her vacations with Chinese leader Mao Zedong. In private, her constant homesickness brought her to tears...