Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jiang is determined to show that he is different. He has assiduously courted important political power centers like the military while putting cronies from Shanghai into top positions. Lately he has also shown a willingness to punish his enemies, real and potential, turning one of the country's periodic anticorruption drives into a purge. "The anticorruption campaign and the succession struggle are intertwined," says James Lilley, former U.S. ambassador to China and now an American Enterprise Institute fellow, "and both are heating up." Many analysts in Beijing see Jiang's hand behind a series of corruption arrests targeted...
...trenches made him want to flee Europe altogether. In prison camp, he found books on Eastern civilization by Ernest Fenollosa and Lafcadio Hearn; at war's end, he enrolled at the Slade School in London and took classes in Japanese and Mandarin. In 1929, penniless, he managed to reach Shanghai. For the next few years he was able to study Chinese art and writing at first hand, painting landscapes and street scenes (none of which survive), getting...
...China's film, theater and book circles, whose communist credentials did not protect him from persecution during the Cultural Revolution; in Beijing. Xia is considered the grandfather of China's grandly propagandistic, procommunist movies, notably his 1930s screenplays of such epics as Wild Torrent and Twenty Four Hours in Shanghai. Named Vice Minister of Culture in 1954, Xia continued producing screenplays well into the 1960s. Nonetheless, during the Cultural Revolution, he was severely criticized and imprisoned for more than eight years for ``revisionist'' ideas...
...SHANGHAI: Crash Zone Drivers who hoped the new inner-city elevated beltway around Shanghai would relieve the city's nightmarish traffic congestion are anything but relieved. Since its opening on Nov. 6, the 48-km, four-lane ring road has become a four-ring circus of chills and spills. Vehicles have smashed into walls, flipped over and collided with other cars driven in the wrong direction. Though no one has been killed so far, the highway's first 44 days of use were a demolition derby, with 1,002 crashes and breakdowns reported--or about one incident an hour...
Midway between its icy source in Tibet and the fertile delta at its mouth in Shanghai, 3,900 miles to the east, China's Yangtze River hurtles through a series of sheer chasms known as the Three Gorges. Legend has it that the scenic channel was carved in stone by the goddess Yao Ji as a way of diverting the river around the petrified remains of a dozen dragons she had slain for harassing the peasants. Over the centuries painters and poets have idealized the canyons as a mist-shrouded wilderness. While that may have once been true, the region...