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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Patrick Tseng, Chinese area specialist for the Library of Congress, said yesterday. "It is very possible that we will switch, but we don't know when yet." Tseng added that if the Library of Congress does convert to Pinyin, other Chinese libraries will probably follow suit...

Author: By Nancy R. Page, | Title: Yenching May Have to Adopt New Transliteration System | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

...been ousted by the gang have been rehabilitated. In one huge demonstration in Shensi province last month, 741 people who had been branded by the radicals as a "black den of spies" were welcomed back to the party fold. Two weeks ago Teng stage-managed the removal of Tseng Shao-shan as first party secretary of industrial Liaoning province in northeastern China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chopping Off the Rat's Tail | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...versed in Chinese asks a salesgirl the exact meaning of the calligraphy on a 200-year-old wall scroll. Her hesitant reply: "Aim high to build our country," which is purest Mao. The scroll actually reproduces a philosophical poem by the Ch'ing dynasty's Tsu Shao-tseng...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: China Says: Ni hao! | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...Shan University, which during the Cultural Revolution was the scene of violent clashes between rival Maoist factions. Currently, one of Canton's major problems, which seems less than earth-shaking to Western visitors, is an increase in petty crime. "There are class enemies who conduct sabotage activities," says Tseng Chen-cheng, a local Communist Party vice chairman. "Some of them tell our young people: 'While you are young, you must enjoy yourselves.' So some of the youngsters were led to steal and pick pockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Confucius Is Alive in Canton | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

According to Tseng, wayward youth are not the only ones who have failed to heed the teachings of Mao. In the residential district that he heads, some workers arrive late and leave early. His solution: more education and ideological indoctrination. What he means by education was apparent in a visit to the neighborhood primary school, where ranks of chanting, ten-year-old martinets were memorizing verses that told them of their ineradicable debt to Chairman Mao. Ideological work for their elders took place in a "recall bitterness" room, where melodramatic clay figures of pre-Liberation exploited workers were neatly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Confucius Is Alive in Canton | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

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