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Hunan, on Mass Ave., Joyce Chen, on Mass Ave., and Lucky Garden, on Concord Ave. lead the pack in the hotly contested race for the hearts of Cambridge's sinophiles. Yenching, also on Mass Ave. Wei Ta, on Winthrop St., and Ta Chien, on Eliot are all adequate The Hong Kong is still for scorpion bowls, not egg footing, its routed new chef notwithstanding And Yung and Yee on Church St is still unknown by most Cantabrigians not without good cause...
...Wei Li-xing...
...Wei accompanied Deng Xiaoping on the Chinese premier's historic visit to the United States in 1979. It was "the first time China sent a true leader to the United States," Yao says proudly of the trip for which he handled press relations. That trip, he believes, was important for his country because China and the U.S. have had "more years of friendship" than antagonism. And it was important for Yao, Chief of the Press Division for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, because most of his life has been dominated by the bitter conflict between the two nations...
...seldom hear of Christians killing heathens," Yao Wei, a fellow at the IOP, said, adding that the book includes examples of American abuse of the Chinese...
...took on the job of spreading the word about Wei's unjust punishment. "If I had not pointed out this unfairness," he writes, "I would have had to be either a coward or the worst kind of human being." On Nov. 11, 1979, Liu went to "democracy wall" in Peking to sell some of the 1,000 copies of the Wei trial transcript he had mimeographed. Agents of China's secret police, the Public Security Bureau (PSB) arrested some of the buyers. Liu then went to the PSB headquarters in Peking to seek redress for them...