Word: shanghaiing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reviewed an honor guard of the People's Liberation Army and enthusiastically joined the tourist crowds in the Forbidden City. Her hosts were so delighted with her that chain-smoking Leader Deng Xiaoping, 82, refrained from puffing during their two-hour lunch, and people along the route, which included Shanghai, Kunming and Canton, gave her the largest reception yet of any foreign trip during her 34-year reign. Trouble was someone forgot to keep her husband Prince Philip, 65, amused. Known as a man with a short fuse and a tart tongue, he saw some students from the University...
...auction last week, the government sold a factory in northeastern Liaoning province to a worker-owned unit of the Shenyang Gas Supply Co. The plant went out of business in August after Peking decided to stop propping up money-losing ventures. In another move, limited stock trading began in Shanghai in a test that could lead to the creation of China's first stock exchange since...
...says Susan Carpenter-McMillan of Feminists for Life. Pro-choice forces are singing back. The lyric doesn't "show what it really means to be 15 and have a baby," says Joan Coombs of Planned Parenthood. Meanwhile, the Material Girl has her own troubles these days. Her new movie, Shanghai Surprise, has derailed at the box office and rumors abound that her marriage to Co-Star Sean Penn is also off the tracks. Such uncharitable speculation is "not true," according to Madonna's p.r. agent, who accuses the media of assuming the pair has broken up "just because they happen...
Lessons is no "life and times" of An Wang. The first quarter of the book gives a superficial look at what any kid would have experienced growing up in early 20th century Shanghai. As to the details of Wang's life, he tells us how many relatives he had, and that most of them died before he came to America--but little else...
During his youth in Shanghai and Kun San, admission to junior high was based on an exam. Despite his poor performance in the humanities, he took the exam and, of course, scored the highest of any of the students. After high school, he earned a place in a program to send Chinese engineers to intern with American companies...