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Word: meng (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After five years of hard labor on a farm outside Peking and 16 years of internal exile in the remote province of Xinjiang, Writer Wang Meng was officially confirmed last week as China's new Minister of Culture. Prior to his appointment, he said he did not want the position but, if chosen, would have to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Back From the Boondocks | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...Seng says the same thing. As does Meng Mom, a puffy-cheeked twelve-year-old dancer who toys shyly with the lavender sleeve of her shirt. She is silent on all topics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Embracing the Executioner | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...witnesses against her was Xiao Meng, head of an investigating team that Jiang assigned to collect incriminating evidence against Liu's wife Wang Guangmei. Dissatisfied with Xiao's initial report that Wang was an American spy Jiang not only threw him into jail for five years but ordered up a second report charging that Wang was at once an agent for the U.S., Japan and Taiwan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Defiant Widow in the Dock | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

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