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Traditionally in China, sons were desired as heirs and daughters thought worthless. "We have changed our attitudes about having sons," said Yu Shi-teh, my interpreter in Shanghai. "Now the state provides for our old age, and we no longer look to our children to care for us." Asked what career aspirations they held for their sons, Chinese invariably answered that "the choice is up to the state. Whatever will serve the state will be good for my child...
...artistic director of the Central Philharmonic Orchestra is Li Teh-lun. He is a round-faced, portly man who smiles when asked how the Cultural Revolution affected his orchestra and replies: "That is a long story." When pressed gently for a response, he says: "There was a change in the content but not the form of the orchestra." Then he explains how the orchestra no longer plays Western music publicly but rather adapts the best from Western music into new Chinese compositions. He says that Western music is still played privately. But the subject seems to pain...
...carry his briefcase himself, and the umbrella." Mao's so-called "Eight Additional Rules" for troop conduct included "Put back the doors you use for bedboards" and "Don't bathe in the sight of women." One nagging personnel problem was the German agent known as Li Teh, who annoyed Chou by his "need for female companionship," yet was so big that "small and thin women could not put up with him." Eventually he was fobbed off with a stout girl named Hsiao-until she deserted during the march...
...autumn of 1934, the Kiangsi soviet founded by Mao and his comrade-in-arms Chu Teh in the mountains of south-central China was about to be overrun by close to a million...
C.N.A.'s Tang Teh-cheh, 62, had held U.N. accreditation since its founding in 1945, and Lin Chen-chi, 54, arrived nine years later. Under a directive personally approved by Secretary-General U Thant, both were told without warning a fortnight ago to turn in their press passes. They had to be excluded, Thant decided, because C.N.A. was a "government agency," and the government of Taiwan had been expelled from the U.N. and many of its affiliated organizations. The rationale was plainly political and discriminatory. The East German news agency is also government controlled, and its correspondents are allowed...