Word: shanghaiing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra takes Shanghai by storm...
...China. Somehow I became a Western musician. My dream has been to come to China, me and the Boston Symphony, to play and teach and learn." Last week a Pan Am 747 with 157 people and 35,000 Ibs. of baggage, musical instruments and equipment touched down in Shanghai. B.S.O. Conductor Ozawa hurled himself forward to meet the weary orchestra, which he had preceded into the country...
...Boston Symphony's triumphal eight-day, four-concert trip to Shanghai and Peking did not come about as a dream. Ozawa, 43, who speaks some Chinese, and the symphony's general manager, Thomas W. Morris, 35, had been invited by Peking to visit next December, but when normalization came, they asked to push the tour date forward. The Chinese agreed. They were especially interested in Ozawa's offer to provide some coaching in the form of master classes...
...dispatch, troops of the People's Liberation Army uncovered stores of Chinese-made weapons and ammunition supplied to the Vietnamese for General Vo Nguyen Giap's war against the U.S. The stores included "soap and towels marked PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA and bicycles made in Shanghai...
...extracted at "struggle sessions" between the offender and his neighbors or coworkers. More serious crimes, like robbery or rape, are dealt with by the police, usually with party officials looking over their shoulders. Although the crime rate is hard to determine, not many Chinese go to jail. For instance, Shanghai (pop. 10.8 million) has only 2,600 inmates in its prison, giving the city an incarceration rate about one-sixth that of the U.S. Chinese authorities claim that the recidivism rate is less than 1%, and that escape is almost unheard of. Asks a Shanghai prison official: "Where would they...