Word: shaanxi
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...rather than urban insurrection, then a departure from orthodoxy. The leading advocate of that strategy was none other than Mao, who was working in another province at the time and therefore was spared the humiliation Deng suffered Deng was rehabilitated in time to join the Long March to northern Shaanxi province beginning in October 1934, and continued to support Mao's approach, eventually becoming political commissar of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. A U.S. military observer who met Deng during this period, Marine Corps Major Evans Carlson, remembered him as "short, chunky and physically tough, with...
Just the other week, Calixto discovered that someone posing as a Harvard official tricked one of China’s largest schools, the Shaanxi International Trade College, into believing that Harvard had agreed to build a branch of the Cambridge university in China...
Some students on Harvard’s own campus believed the farce, and news outlets such as China’s state-owned Xinhua News Agency reported on the agreement. According to the Xinhua article, the Shaanxi International Trade College believed that Harvard would send teaching materials, equipment, teachers, and students through an exchange program with the Chinese school...
...Olympians are chafing under the restrictions. Shortly before the Athens games, Tian told TIME: "Things are different than 10 years ago, and we should be allowed to make more money. It's a reflection of the economic reforms China has gone through." Now he has been relegated to the Shaanxi province diving team. Meanwhile, fellow Olympic gold-medalist Guo Jingjing helped safeguard her place on the team by publicly apologizing last month for her own commercial ambitions, saying that her selfishness was unacceptable because "I belong to the nation." That, it appears, is the attitude needed to participate...
...jail remains a very real possibility for agitators. Yet even those who have been convicted of inciting unrest are receiving help from an unlikely quarter: factory managers and their overseas clients. After the riot at Stella's Dongguan factory, 10 workers including Chen, the migrant worker from Shaanxi, were sentenced by a Dongguan court to serve up to three-and-a-half years in prison for destroying factory property. But Stella's managers (who say they were trying to address workers' complaints when the strike erupted), aided by foreign shoe companies and overseas NGOs, petitioned judges and Chinese officials...