Word: shanghaiing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Empire of the Sun, the boy is James Graham, eleven-year-old son of an English merchant in Shanghai at the first shell burst of World War II in the Pacific. Behind the camera is Jim's spiritual cousin, Steven Spielberg, 39. Spielberg's trials of the past couple of years have been nowhere so cataclysmic as those that befell Jim, his family and millions of other refugees under the imperial Japanese boot. Still, they must have injected an unwelcome dose of maturity into the man with a lock on childhood. The films produced recently under his aegis have fizzled...
...work." Still, since 1981 at least half of all rural families have built new homes. Bao Hongyuan, 38, lives with his parents, his wife and ten-year-old son in a new two-story, six-room house in the model Hong Qiao farming community in the western suburbs of Shanghai. Says he: "We not only have a new house, but electrical appliances, a television set, a washing machine and a refrigerator...
...with a steady supply of electricity only four days a week. Foreign entrepreneurs also found that even the paper agreements were subject to loose interpretation by inexperienced Chinese partners. Says Martin Posth, a West German who is deputy managing director of Volkswagen's joint venture in Shanghai: "You need the right partner in the right area, and you need to examine the existing infrastructure. But the human factor is the real yardstick for the success of a joint venture. Machinery can be bought and you can find funding, but you cannot buy qualified management...
Anderson was traveling in China on June 18 when he was stricken with a high fever and taken to a provincial hospital. A blood test showed he had AIDS. Though CAAC, China's flag carrier, agreed to fly Anderson to connecting flights in Shanghai, two U.S. airlines there refused him passage. After Anderson's family deposited $40,000 with the U.S. State Department to pay for the costs, the military flight was arranged...
Most Hong Kong enterprises avoid such bad vibrations by contracting with a feng shui master while their buildings are still in the planning stage. The ultramodern $650 million Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank building, which the Bank of China tower would rival for dominance of the city's skyline, prudently had its blueprints vetted by feng shui experts. For a fee of several thousand dollars, a feng shui master advised moving a bank officer's door away from a nearby escalator to preserve the delicate yin-yang. Management, mindful of the feng shui faith of the Hong Kong Chinese...