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...Ming Dynasty Woodcuts, Harvard- Yenching Library, through the end of June...
...Under Secretary is Tang Ming-chao, 62, an American-educated diplomat who edited a newspaper in New York's Chinatown before returning to his homeland in 1950. In his new post, Tang will be involved with the work of the U.N. Trusteeship Council. He will thereby be in a position to press for the independence of the world's remaining colonial territories...
...life, for instance. At a banquet in Shanghai, he studied the menu to make sure that changes he had ordered had been made. Chou may, in fact, have been a little too attentive to detail. After American reporters discovered that the well-dressed, cheerful Chinese milling about the Ming tombs with transistor radios had been planted there to impress the visitors, he told Nixon by way of apology: "We don't claim to be perfect. We shouldn't have done...
...euphoria, some commentators had been too prone to overlook the obvious brutality, regimentation and instability of the Chinese regime. The reality of China was a sobering counterbalance for the newsmen on the tour (see THE PRESS). Spontaneity, they often discovered, was carefully rehearsed. Example: when the President visited the Ming tombs, smiling, colorfully dressed Chinese frolicked in the vicinity. Sure enough, as soon as the visit ended, functionaries collected the transistor radios that people were listening to. little girls removed the bright ribbons from their hair and the whole Potemkin-village scene vanished in a twinkling...
...Ming emperors, the center of the world between heaven and earth began in the Hall of Supreme Harmony within the red gates of the Forbidden City. Rising from a massive deep-red pedestal, the red pillars and two yellow tile roofs spread forth in gigantic yet perfect proportions. In the morning, snow falls across the Imperial Palace grounds. It is into this setting that Richard Nixon and a mob of television and still cameramen walk, making small talk and gawking. "The snow has whitewashed the world," says Yeh Chien-ying, deputy chairman of the military affairs commission of the Chinese...