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...example is Jin Ping Mei (The Golden Lotus), a highly erotic literary classic from the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644). Mao would let it be seen only by party officials of ministerial rank or higher. Wei Junyi, head of the People's Literature Press, prepared an expurgated edition for somewhat wider distribution, put it off during the campaign against spiritual pollution, and finally let it be printed in 1985 for distribution to writers and scholars, who snapped up 10,000 copies immediately at $6.65 per copy...
...Fund for the Handicapped. Deng Zhifang, 34, is a graduate researcher in physics at New York's University of Rochester. Deng's three daughters are married. The oldest, Deng Lin, is an accomplished artist who has exhibited her paintings in New York City. Deng Rong and her husband He Ping, both Chinese foreign service officers, served in Washington from 1979 to 1983. Deng has at least two grandchildren, on whom he is said to dote...
...China relations took a great leap forward in 1971, as PING-PONG DIPLOMACY helped bridge the gap between the two nations...
...citizens and journalists to visit China in nearly a quarter of a century ... Probably never before in history has a sport been used so effectively as a tool of international diplomacy. With its premium on delicate skill and its onomatopoeic name implying an interplay of initiative and response, Ping Pong was an apt metaphor for the relations between Washington and Peking. "I was quite a Ping Pong player in my days at law school," President Nixon told his aides last week. "I might say I was fairly good at it." --TIME, April...
Activists had virtually no voice until the 1990s, when Beijing allowed nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to register in large numbers. Today China has 280,000 NGOs, ranging from Ping-Pong clubs to cancer-survivor groups to economic think tanks. Consider them potential interest groups--what social scientists call a budding "civil society"--that will demand a say in government policy. The most active by far are environmentalists. They notched their first triumph in 1998 by blocking a logging scheme in Yunnan province that would have imperiled the rare golden monkey. Today they have graduated to representing people...