Word: weis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard senior has written a book relating Asian guerilla warfare to Wei-Ch'i, the Oriental counterpart of the game of chess...
...Protracted Game: A Wei-Ch'i Interpretation of Maoist Revolutionary Strategy, Scott A. Boorman 70, who ranks first in the senior class, describes the techniques of the game and their analogy to the tactics of Mao Tse-tung during the Chinese Civil...
...Vanguard not only as a means of passing on Taiwan's own experiences in climbing from underdevelopment to economic independence, but also as an instrument to fight Communism. "Peking makes its pitch to governments amid polemics and promises that somehow never quite seem to turn out," says Yin Wei-Hang, director for African affairs at the Foreign Ministry in Taipei. "We go through the governments to the people. We go down in the mud with them. Of course, it improves government-to-government relations too, and we can hardly object...
This practical, moralistic code has encountered many rival teachings, chief among them mystical Taoism, which holds that Tao, or the Way, knows no distinction between big and small, high and low, good and bad. Through wu wei, meaning "action by inaction," man can achieve tranquillity in the midst of strife. As the sage Lao Tzu expressed...
Currently, 150 choice pieces from King Gustaf's collection are touring the U.S., and last week went on exhibition in New York's Asia House Gallery. Typical of his sharp-eyed acquisitiveness are his ceramic brace of Northern Wei young women. Dating from around A.D. 500, they stand only 6¾-in. high and represent dancers ready to perform in a nobleman's house. The piece was never meant to be seen by living eyes; like funeral objects found in Egyptian tombs, the sculpture was placed in the elegant grave of a dead princeling as a token...