Word: tais
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vietnamese women have always done what in America is thought of as man's work," Hue Tam Ho Tai, a third year Harvard doctoral student in History and Far Eastern Languages, told a gathering at the Cambridge YWCA yesterday...
...Tai said Vietnam was a matriarchal society prior to 100 years of Chinese domination beginning in the 3rd century...
...presence of three generations in the typical Vietnamese household tends to discourage divorce which is less common than in the United States. The Vietnamese prefer informal separation rather than risk the ravages of a court divorce, Tai said...
...Tai said Vietnamese women typically perform jobs that require more business than skill. Families prefer not to give daughters, who leave home after marriage, the training required for such jobs as bank director...
Most Chinese calisthenics and exercises, notably the Tai Chi or "shadow boxing," have their roots in martial training. Chinese acrobatics go back to prehistoric times, when the first farming settlements were begun. Then, or so many experts think, "tricksters" earned their food by performing magic and sleights of hand. Vestiges of this tradition survive in the Shenyang troupe's lion dance, which evolved from the use of animal skins to work a spell on crops, and in their twirling of plates and vases on sticks, which recalls the practice of giving gifts of food to the tricksters. Anthropologists...