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...preliminary pact with the Chinese to build six or seven hotels, each with 500 to 1,000 rooms. At least one hotel will be in Peking; others may rise in Shanghai, Canton, and perhaps in the lakeside resort town of Hangchow and the country's ancient capital of Sian...
...worst in modern history. But it sounded as if it would make a story. So, at the end of February 1943, I flew to North China with my friend Harrison Forman of the London Times, and won permission to travel the Lunghai railway from Paochi through Sian to the gap through which the Yellow River flowed and the railway ran. The Japanese, on the far side of the river, habitually shelled this gap by day. The station at the break, where we spent the evening, stank of urine, stank of shit, stank of bodies. All around us were acres...
...Sian Phillips stands out as Livia, the wicked witch of the Tiber, who dominates all around with her icy, terrible beauty. Brian Blessed manages the difficult task of making Augustus, the founding father, appear both wise and foolish, the conqueror of the world who cannot manage his own family. Derek Jacobi's Claudius is half stumble and stutter and half genius, but convincing in every detail...
...Kunming, one poster demanded that people be allowed to live where they please instead of being assigned their place of residence. Another called for the abolition of the system whereby husbands and wives are separated by their jobs for long periods of time. In the northwestern city of Sian, a poster asked for the publication of two human rights declarations, the 1975 Helsinki accord and the Czechoslovak Charter 77. Declared the poster: "It doesn't matter whether Charter 77 and the Helsinki agreement are good or bad; they ought to be made public so that people can judge...
...political situation, her children [at least two but total number unknown], or other personal relations. Naturally, the Chairman found her behavior intolerable. When the Party reached the Central Soviet Districts of the Northwest, Ho abandoned the Chairman, vowing never to settle in Yenan. She returned on her own to Sian. With no one to cajole or control her, she took out her frustrations on her two children by beating them compulsively. Even as adults they showed the effects of having been battered, Chiang Ch'ing said. Like their mother and because of her they failed to adjust...