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...find immigrants who entered the U.S. under assumed names during the exclusionary period (1882-1943), when interrogation records show only adopted names, visit www.nara.gov/regional/findaids/chirip.html There you can search cemeteries to find ancestors' true surnames. For limited access to original Chinese family histories from the Ming and Qing dynasties at Columbia University's C.V. Starr East Asian Library, search www.columbia.cu/libraries/indiv/eastasia...
Excelling at marksmanship, she was discovered on the school rifle range by no less a talent scout than Jiang Qing, Mao's wife, and went into movies, starring in all her roles. For Little Flower (1980), playing a revolutionary's daughter in pre-Maoist China, she won the Hundred Flowers Award. Instead of staying in China, she moved to New York City as an actress-model. "I was clueless when I arrived," she recalls. "The cultural shock--even the toothpaste tasted different! My desire to go to the States was so vague, yet so strong. It's like going...
Rudenstine detailed ways that the two countriescould share knowledge and cultural traditions,saying that both Chinese and American universityofficials support new initiatives. One suchinitiatives, sponsored by Harvard and the ChineseUniversity Qing Hua, is a study of economicdevelopment, its environmental impact and relatedproblems...
From Xi'an he will proceed to Shanghai, where he will meet the presidents of Fudan and Shanghai Universities. He will make another side trip to Suzhou, a nearby city famous for its Ming and Qing dynasty gardens, before returning to Shanghai for an alumni reception...
...after braving the long journey to South Asian countries. In the Ming Dynasty, Chinese navigator Cheng Ho led a fleet to what the people then called the "West Sea" seven times in the 15th century, spreading the Chinese culture to distant land. Only later on, especially in the late Qing Dynasty, [did] the feudal rulers adopt [...] a policy of seclusion, which hampered China's progress and its exchanges with the outside world. After the Opium War, generation after generation of enlightened Chinese people have spared no efforts in learning from Western countries advanced science and cultural achievements in combination with...