Word: shan
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Little in today's Inner Mongolia resembles the mighty Mongol empire of the great khans. Chinese jeeps and motorcycles have largely replaced the hardy Mongolian ponies of the khans' cavalry, and camels carry as many tourists as traders over the dunes of A-la Shan. But the storied deserts of the region?the Gobi, the Tengger and the Badain Jaran?still offer a staggering variety of landscapes. Flat stretches of sand and rock alternate with Sahara-like dunes, dramatic canyons and plateaus covered with hardy shrubs. The extreme austerity makes you marvel that the Mongol hordes managed to survive, much...
...Shan P. Patel ’03, a student in professor Stephen P. Rosen’s Government seminar, “The Future of War,” said that the seminar room was surprising full during its first meeting this Monday...
...Chinese will never read a quote saying the Games "will bring Beijing's corruption to the world's attention," as Zhao Hong, a teacher of Marxist philosophy in the distant city of Kunming, told TIME. And they don't know that a member of the banned China Democracy Party, Shan Chengfeng, wrote an open letter in December asking the IOC to press for the release of her activist husband and "every political prisoner," or that she is serving two years in a labor camp for her missive. Still, dissident Sha Yuguang, who has pressed for democratic reform for two decades...
...Shan P. Patel...
...High Commission on Human Rights meets in Geneva next week and the U.S. recently announced its intention to sponsor a resolution to censure China for its human rights record. The government is clearly worried by the women's actions: police detained Hu for eight hours in mid-January. Shan suffered much worse. She was sentenced without trial to two years re-education through labor for "disturbing social order...