Word: shanghaiing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Vice Presidents, John Nance Garner in 1935 and Henry Wallace in 1944, made trips to China during their terms in office. Ulysses S. Grant toured Peking, Shanghai and Canton in 1879, two years after he had left the presidency. But no incumbent U.S. President has ever set foot on Chinese soil. This time, the whole world will watch on the tube the beginning of a new era in Sino-American relations -and a triumph for Richard Nixon...
...well as 87 American newsmen and TV technicians (see THE PRESS). He will spend five days in Peking, where he will be accorded a full state welcome. He will then fly aboard a Chinese aircraft to Hangchow for a day's sightseeing before departing on February 27 from Shanghai for Alaska and Washington...
...year, Chen excelled as Mao's kuai-tsu-shou (hatchet man). He led Mao's rear guard during the Long March, and commanded the New Fourth Army in its fight against the Japanese during World War II. In the civil war that followed, Chen captured Nanking and Shanghai for the Communists. Though suitably bellicose toward the U.S., Chen was considered somewhat bourgeois by the Red Guards, and he dropped from sight at the height of the Cultural Revolution. Mao's presence at a memorial service for Chen indicated that he was no longer in disfavor...
...President's pre-Peking summit meetings with Western leaders begins this week, when Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau comes to the White House. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler announced that the President and Mrs. Nixon will spend Feb. 21-28 in China, visiting Peking, the capital; Shanghai, China's largest city; and Hangchow, the picturesque winter retreat of Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Henry Kissinger, the President's foreign policy adviser, noted that there will doubtless be discussion of other nations between Nixon and the Chinese, but as for the war in Viet...
...American foreign policy is basically responsible. Sensing a trend, a pretty young thing called Veronika Yhap put aside her work as a hospital planner and became a Dragon Lady-one of four, in fact, who banded together under that name to import Chinese-manufactured clothing and handicraft. Born in Shanghai but educated in the U.S., Veronika found a host of potential buyers around Manhattan shops after she showed clothes from her own wardrobe. "The response was fantastic." she says, "and we were in business before we knew...