Word: wifely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...protagonist's parents give him away when he's 6 to a burly army officer and his sickly wife who can't have kids and need help around the house with chores. (Why his parents are so willing to get rid of him is never entirely clear.) In adolescence, Guanglin makes it to college in Beijing, but through no help of his original family members, to whom he returns when his adoptive father kills himself. Things only get worse, and the lachrymose novel quickly becomes a caustic indictment of Confucian familial ideals, an exposé of the "deadness of family...
...mistake. Just over a year ago, the 27-year-old sales executive thought he could make a better living trading stocks listed on the Shanghai bourse full-time. He started investing in 2002 with $33,700, and he says he has done pretty well. So, after convincing his wife that he could make enough money to support them, he quit his job and stayed home every day, trading stocks via the computer in the bedroom of the couple's Shanghai apartment...
...says Tang glumly, his wife is "telling me almost every day that maybe it's time to go back to a regular job." These days who could blame her? After a furious 18-month run that saw shares of listed Chinese companies more than triple in value, the country's bull market is stumbling. Indexes in Shanghai and Shenzhen are both down about 15% from their October peaks, and recent moves by the government to cool China's runaway economic growth appear to have deflated the mania for stock investing that has gripped urban Chinese, from maids who quit their...
...much he has lost in the market recently, but after three straight down days ending Nov. 19, he conceded that "it's possible" China might be experiencing the beginning of a bear market. "The market will come back - at some point," he says. But, prodded by his wife, he is now surfing online job sites for employment leads. He'll soon be working for a salary again. "Maybe [day trading] wasn't such a good idea," he says. "It was nice not to have to worry about having a boss. But it's over...
...transformation was radical. In the village of Matta, the police post sported a new sign: "Taliban Station." So did the precinct in Kabal. In Kalam village, Dr. Fazli Raziq's barber disappeared, driven out of business by a new edict prohibiting men from shaving their beards. Fazli's wife, Zaibi, stopped leaving the house, preferring to stay inside rather than replace her headscarf with the freshly mandated shuttlecock burqa that left only a mesh opening for the eyes. Then militants threatened to bomb their daughter's school. All in all, five out of seven subdistricts - some 68 villages - in this...