Word: urban
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...Pierce, a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ East Asian program, praised the film for its unique, first-person insight into the period. “When I’m in China, I’m usually with people my age or in urban areas and don’t directly interact with people who experienced it,” he said. For people of his generation, he said, the Cultural Revolution is a hard thing to grasp, and this movie gave it a human face. Xing’s film has been shown...
...Arts and Sciences at the time that he had his first foray into Chinese-American relations with “ping-pong diplomacy,” reflected on his work and life as a diplomat during a period of explosive economic growth in China. Emphasizing the differences between urban and rural areas, Spelman detailed the visibility of the “trappings of luxury” in Shanghai, as well as the “huge change” they have represented. “The mentality is to be a successful entrepreneur—to get rich is glorious...
...more likely, what if the reason he renounced a life of earthly pleasures was to get away from the likes of foreign journalists for whom he is a fascinating curiosity? Surely someone who chooses the life of a hermit has what those of us who work in the urban corporate economy might call "people issues...
...hopeful precedent, in Sweden, which in the early 1990s solved its own banking crisis by guaranteeing deposits, injecting huge amounts of liquidity into the banking system via the central bank, and forcing banks to write down the value of their assets very quickly. In describing why that bailout worked, Urban Baeckstroem, the former Swedish central bank president who played a central role in the rescue, has identified some other vital measures. The first is that the Swedish government quickly moved to clean up government finances at the same time as it bailed out the banks. The second is that monetary...
...followed a cord of suburban and rural communities that connects the urban Democratic strongholds of Kansas City and St. Louis. After stops along the way, I found myself in Lincoln County, driving through a little subdivision of newly minted homes called Ashleigh Estates, looking for voters to interview. A group of young families was gathered on a concrete driveway, next to a pickup truck with a big toolbox in the bed. Lots of kids, ranging from toddlers to preteens, were playing in the slanting evening sunshine, while a couple of the dads sipped after-work beers...