Word: shanghaiing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ORSON WELLES I. Shanghai Express, 4, 7:15, 10:30. My Little Chickadee, 5:30, 8:50. Sun.-Tues., Red Dust, 4, 7:30, 11, Misfits...
...Shanghai interpreter, whom we shall call Mr. Chen, is 33 years old; he was trained in English at one of Shanghai's universities. Every Thursday he goes to a radio assembly factory to learn from the masses, and he has every Sunday off, like most office workers. Mr. Chen is a patient man. He has been applying without success to join the Communist Party since 1965. At any rate, he considers himself fortunate to be able to get away to the countryside for productive labor on a commune one month in every twelve. It is, after all, the only time...
...year-old Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Chou declared that the party will turn to a collective leadership. China watchers were intrigued, however, that Chou, 74, singled out one emerging party leader as an example of the experienced younger men who could eventually take over the government: Yao Wenyuan of Shanghai, one of the three Politburo members who head the Communist Party's radical wing. Yao, fortyish, who is officially listed as No. 6 in the party hierarchy, is also rumored to be Mao's son-in-law. According to the story put about by the Soviets and Nationalist...
...household tools, from stereo to juicer, are stuffed with miniaturized circuits and every discotheque routinely puts on light shows that eclipse anything that the Biennale ever offered. Yet, a few artists continue to produce kinetic objects of real aesthetic interest. One is an affable Chinese ex-engineer from Shanghai named Tsai, whose cybernetic sculptures-the result of a fellowship at M.I.T.-are currently at the Denise René gallery in New York...
...lights in Peking, something unheard of not long ago. Mao badges, Mao statues and the little Red Book of quotations are disappearing from many public places. In the past couple of months, too, Chinese have been able to wash down their noodles in the myriad noodle bars of Peking, Shanghai and Canton with draft beer, a popular practice that almost ceased during the Cultural Revolution. Most of the restaurants are packed, since for the Chinese eating and drinking are among the few entertainment alternatives to such pious homilies as the ballet The Red Detachment of Women, even when...