Word: revolutionizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zhu's delicate and perhaps impossible task is to transform China's economy without fomenting social upheaval--a phenomenon with which he has had some experience. Born into poverty in the city of Changsha, capital of Hunan province and home town of Mao Zedong, Zhu obtained an engineering degree from...
JD: I'm someone who obviously believes that intellectual activity can in fact change things. One definite way to chart this is something like the Public Interest, [a magazine] where Kristol and Bell critique the Great Society and '60s liberalism, and it was enormously influential in creating some of the...
But I am certainly not alone in this mini-revolution in popular culture. Presumably disgusted by the consistent low quality and objectionable content of some music, my favorite radio station in New York City changed its format in 1995, and is now exclusively playing classic soul. Immediately before the changes...
It tells how he will leave Beijing to visit "the Chinese cities of Fudang and Tsinghua" which one suspects is a reference to Fudan and Qinghua Universities, the former in Shanghai, the latter in Beijing. The "1948 communist revolution" is a typo, unless there's been some historical revisionism I...
Other stops in China will include Beijing's historic Forbidden City, archaeological excavations and speeches to Harvard alumni groups in the Chinese capital. Rudenstine will meet separately with two alumni groups, divided into those who graduated before the 1948 communist revolution and those who graduated after.