Word: overing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quan has another claim to local fame: in the middle of his orange groves he has erected a 6-ft. shrine to Zhao Ziyang, the Communist Party leader whose tacit support of the student protesters in Tiananmen Square contributed to his ouster in late June. Near the top of the...
Bi's seniority entitles him to a salary of about $38 a month -- less than a factory worker, taxi driver, guide and just about every other employed Chinese receives. Even so, for the next four years Bi must get by on $12 less each month. Five dollars is deducted automatically...
Later, over lunch with a psychologist, I try connecting the phenomenal spread of television in China with the West's greatest contribution to childhood education. "What about Sesame Street?" I ask. "You must be kidding," says the psychologist. "Sesame Street is about individualism, about accepting differences. Don't you get...
Then there are "the girls," about 3,000 of them, who work from 7:30 in the morning until 11 at night six days a week. None I speak with are over 19. Almost all are from Hunan province. Most stay no more than two years and then return home...
Viet Nam represents a great jagged gash in the fabric of American history, an ugly tear in a tapestry that people once believed had been woven out of high ideals and simple decency. A few years ago, when it became obvious that it was time to repair that rent, our...