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...noteworthy figures who influence the events we report. Among the authors whose chronicles have appeared in these pages: Anwar Sadat, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Alexander Haig and Dissident Elena Bonner, the wife of Physicist Andrei Sakharov. This week TIME's cover story, a lengthy excerpt from Chinese Author Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai, is a memoir of a very different kind. History will record not that the author shaped large events but that she simply survived to write a gripping personal account of her imprisonment between 1966 and 1973, during China's Cultural Revolution. Cheng...
...Peter Nien-chu Kiang '80 is the teaching assistant for the Dunster House seminar Asian American Identity and Experience and is a coordinator at the Asian American Resource Workshop in Chinatown...
...Teng has been personally identified with the invasion. If it should be perceived as a flop in the future, opponents could conceivably use it against him, much as the Cuban missile crisis was used against Khrushchev. Some diplomats noted that last week another, lesser known Vice Premier, Li Hsien-nien, had assumed an expanded role as Peking's spokesman...
...activist, pragmatic diplomacy. After 12 years of xenophobic isolationism, China is increasingly behaving like a global superpower, exchanging state visits, forging agreements, cajoling, arguing, and sometimes berating other nations around the world. Last week alone, while Keng was flying around the Caribbean, Vice Foreign Minister Han Nien-lung was resuming long-stalled talks with Japanese officials about a peace treaty. Meanwhile Peking dispatched delegations of electrical engineers to the U.S., canoeists to Yugoslavia, educators to Sri Lanka, economists to Zambia, parachutists to Canada, physicians to the Central African Empire. In addition, a team of crack Chinese players left for France...
Japan. In May the Carter Administration agreed to sell China infrared scanning devices for oil exploration. To pay for its expensive purchases of Western technology, China's economics czar, Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien, told a group of visiting British parliamentarians this month that Peking is considering the once heretical action of borrowing from foreign banks...