Word: shanghaiing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presence of 52 Soviet divisions on China's northern border. Reagan will have three televised opportunities to get his message across to the Chinese public: an interview with Chinese journalists, a speech at Peking's Great Hall of the People, and a question-and-answer session with students at Shanghai's Fudan University. Besides the requisite stops at schools, suburban communes and the Great Wall, Reagan and Wife Nancy will take a one-day side trip to Xian, an archaeological wonder featuring the 2,000-year-old tomb of China's first Emperor. In addition to the sumptuous banquet...
...befits such grand expectations, the post-Mao leadership has also overhauled the structure of China's relations with the world. From the Daqing oilfields in the north to Canton in the south, from Shanghai in the east to sooty Lanzhou in the west, 1,600 foreign specialists are working to boost China's economy. Some 128 American firms have offices in Peking; this year trade between the U.S. and China will amount to $5.5 billion, a fiftyfold increase since 1972. Ten years ago, almost no Chinese were allowed to go overseas; today there are 10,000 students...
...often idealism. Tolerance, they believe, is encouraging decadence; capitalist practices and perks, they suspect, are tempting Chinese citizens to abandon the Maoist values of struggle, self-sacrifice and subservience to party in favor of such Western vices as self-interest, elitism and cynical moral pragmatism. Last year a Shanghai newspaper printed what it took to be the inspiring story of Zhang Hua, a medical student who lost his life while trying to save a drowning peasant. More than 1,600 readers wrote to the paper, many of them indignant. Was it not terrible, they complained, that a young man whose...
Sung was been thirty-five years ago in Shanghai to one of China's wealthiest and most aristocratic families. The literal translation of his given Mandarin Chinese name Sung Wang Moon, is "a door in the clouds." It is a phrase which could easily be used to describe the distinct of focus in the designer's clean and sophisticated apparel and accessories...
...Born in Shanghai, China, Tribe is the son of Polish Jews who fled both Soviet and Nazi persecution. The family emigrated to San Francisco when he was five. A gifted child, he completed high school at 16 and majored in mathematics at Harvard College. After graduating summa cum laude, he began a Ph.D. program in math, specializing in the rarefied subject of algebraic topology. Midway through the doctoral program, he decided that mathematics would be too "lonely" a pursuit and enrolled in Harvard Law School. He finished magna cum laude in 1966, and a year later was selected...