Word: shanghais
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week trip starting in the town of Yibin down 1,600 miles of the Yangtze, the "Long River" that runs through the heart of China from the highlands of Tibet to the skyscrapers of Shanghai, produced encounters with scores of Chinese obsessed and driven by the desire to improve their lives. Farmers, boat captains, teachers, gangsters, businessmen who work the river and engineers who seek to harness it--all want to share in the new Chinese dream, to become wealthy and regain the self-respect that China lost to colonial powers centuries ago. Political change lags behind...
...travel agency in Tibet for four years, then set up a computer store in the southern city of Kunming. In 1996 he passed a university entrance exam to study international finance and economics. He paid for his sister to study Japanese; she now works for Sony in Shanghai, and Zhong hopes to join her there very soon, working for a foreign bank or investment house...
...ships to smaller boats heading further upriver, and has long been a center of commerce. Here are department stores with imported brands, stock-trading houses, U.S. fast-food chains--and "Balls," a newly opened NBA theme bar run by a former car salesman from Taiwan. Not so slick as Shanghai, Wuhan still has its pretensions, enough to attract people such as "Johnny" Wang Liang, a hairdresser who left fashion-conscious Guangzhou "because it was already full of people like me." Wang finds Wuhan fairly tame and doesn't like the food, but he is making good money dyeing orange...
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK, 1985 Architect: Norman Foster All the workings of a high rise--from escalator machinery to cross braces--are displayed in Hong Kong's forceful steel-and-glass tower...
Rudenstine will meet with local university officials including the presidents of Fudan and Shanghai Universities, Harvard alumni and "friends of Harvard" in each city, according to Harvard University spokesperson Alex Huppe. He will also meet with government officials in Tokyo and possibly Seoul...