Word: shanghaiing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet bloc, including an assignment as TIME's Eastern Europe bureau chief (1981-83). Says Hornik: "That background was really useful as I tried to discern how far its economic reforms have taken China from orthodox Marxism-Leninism." Stationed in Peking since April, Hornik has traveled widely: to Shanghai twice, to Canton and to Shenzhen, one of China's foreign trade and export zones. Perhaps his most absorbing trip was to the huge heartland province of Sichuan. Says Hornik: "It gave me a better feel for China than any other region that I have been to. Until...
...group-owned businesses this year plan to build 59 hotels in Peking alone. The most daring of these experiments has seen a few collectives sell "internal shares" to employees, on which they stand to gain "bonuses" (the capitalist-sounding term dividends is still avoided). When a photoprinting service in Shanghai offered stock for sale earlier this year, thousands of people lined up to pay $17.50 each per share, equivalent to about half a month's wages for an average worker...
Although the Patriotic Association of Chinese Catholics has usurped the allegiance of more than 3 million believers, a small underground church in China, holding clandestine services in private homes, has remained faithful to Rome. A hero of this remnant has been Gong Pinmei (Ignatius Kung), the bishop of Shanghai, who has been imprisoned for treason since 1955, steadfastly maintaining his loyalty to the Vatican. Xinhua, the official government news agency, last week reported that Gong, now nearly 84, had "repented" and had been paroled after agreeing to forswear any further contact with the Vatican. Gong, the news agency said...
Again and again each day, the juxtapositions of culture and language are jarring, like some mad laboratory experiment in continental drift. In the real world, 9,700 miles separate Shanghai from Bogota. In Jackson Heights on Roosevelt Avenue, they butt right up against each other, as when, one recent afternoon, a Colombian teenager loped into a hole-in-the-wall take-out restaurant. "You do chicken?" he asked haltingly. The Chinese teenager behind the counter frowned for a moment, baffled, then smiled. "Dumpling!" she said, nodding. "We have all kind dumpling...
...family fled from Oranienburg, Germany, to Shanghai in 1939 to escape the Nazis' persecution of Jews. Interned by the Japanese during the war, Blumenthal was 21 when he came to the U.S. in 1947 as a "displaced person." Within a week he had found a job as a shipping clerk for the National Biscuit Co. and nine years later had earned a bachelor's degree in business from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton. In a career mixing business and Government service, he became a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (1961-63, during...