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Because the Chinese calendar is based on the moon's rotation, the new year can occur anytime from mid-January to late February. According to legend, the calendar was created by Ta Nao, a minister of Emperor Huang Ti's, and has been used in Asia since 4000 B.C. It is based on 12 temperaments represented by 12 symbolic animals - rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig (the dragon being the well-known favorite). After 12 years, the cycle restarts, matching the length of Jupiter's solar orbit. (Read "China Not So Bullish About...
...exquisite stone lace, a sort of architectural counterpart to the deeply incised ivory caskets and pyxes favored by the courts of al-Andalus. One of the most impressive bowls in this show, a deep conical form bearing on its inside surface a design of a Portuguese nao, or trading ship, so powerful in its rhythms of hull and sail that the concavity of the dish seems almost to reverse itself under the visual pressure of the form, displays a Christian cross on the boat's mainsail...
With MiG-21s buzzing low overhead, and the sound of sporadic gunfire echoing across scattered parts of the city, Kabul was described by foreign residents as being "in the grip of crisis." From the shopping streets of the Shari-i-Nao district to the alleyways of the Shorbazaar in the Old Quarter, thousands of shopkeepers had first closed their doors on Thursday to dramatize their resentment against the Soviet invaders. Shouting anti-Soviet epithets and antigovernment jeers, the merchants repeatedly defied attempts by Afghan police to force them to reopen their shops. When thousands of other citizens poured into...
...Robert Jay Lifton, 49, research psychiatrist at Yale and prolific author (Revolutionary Immortality). He interviewed hundreds of U.S. P.O.W.s after the Korean War and dozens of survivors of China's postrevolutionary indoctrination wave of hsi nao (literally, brainwashing...
...Nao, nao nao, I don't write them." he explained to one of the uninformed. "It's awwl spontane...