Word: wais
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wai-yee S. Li, an expert in ancient Chinese historical narratives, will join the Department of East Asian Studies (EAS) as a tenured professor in September...
...floundering "tiger economies" of Asia. Foster envisaged it as a "horizontal cathedral," with its airy, Y-shaped passenger terminal under the great wing of its roof. It had teething troubles at first--there were cargo and passenger delays when it opened last July--but now, according to Wan Wai Lun, corporate affairs officer of the Hong Kong Airport Authority, "it's incredibly efficient and caters to the passengers' needs...
...surface-simplicity, the novel is so richly textured that it deserves repeated reading. Filled with brilliant throwaway lines ("her voice like a little broom sweeping off the dust that had piled up on the slates of a venetian blind"), its keen observations about relationships are reminiscent of Wong Kar Wai's 1995 film "Chungking Express...
...think he's the first Chinese leader who presented Western humor," said Tam Wai Yi, deputy China editor for TVB News, a Hong Kong television station...
...Edgar Wai-Keng Cheng, chair of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, kicked off the conference with a keynote address entitled, "Hong Kong's Financial Market Post...