Word: renmin
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...have half a day or so to see the city, start by taking a taxi to the Shanghai Museum, at 201 Renmin Avenue, which features China's finest ceremonial bronzes, ceramics and calligraphy. A walk across the People's Square, past waltzing couples and kite-flying youngsters, will take you to the equally impressive Shanghai Art Museum, housed in the carefully renovated Shanghai Race Club at 325 Nanjing Xi Road, which boasts China's top collection of contemporary paintings...
...Reagan defended his approval of the Shanghai II communiqué against right-wing critics by pointing out that the U.S. promise to reduce arms sales to Taiwan was linked to China's commitment to peaceful resolution of the island's future. The Chinese Communist Party daily Renmin Ribao attacked the President for "completely violating" the spirit of the communiqué. The Chinese want to leave the linkage tacit. Reagan's sin, in their eyes, was to refer to it explicitly...
...well as external. He followed this with speculation on why I was allowed this degree of freedom. He might even have added, as I also pointed out in the interview, that when an official dinner was given in my honor the occasion was reported in the major Peking newspaper Renmin Ribso (People's Daily). When one remembers that I was on a private visit arising out of an intellectual curiosity about China and the Chinese Revolution, that I represented no one and that I was not invited by any group or organization in China, it surely does not seem hyperbolic...
...these activities, including studies, took second place to politics. Young Pioneer meetings, discussions on politics and the Marxist classics, reports on current affairs by the Party secretary of the school, group readings of People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) editorials--these were frequent activities, and attendance was enforced by social pressure...