Word: wu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, Eugene Wen-Chin Wu, head librarian of the Yenching Library, said the partial diary is the first find of its kind since the library first opened...
...Wu said that it is not possible to rank Lum's find with other Yenching possessions because most of the library's collections are in other languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean...
Last week both sides came close to laying their cards on the table. The decisive session occurred during a four-day visit to Peking by British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe. After seven hours of bargaining with his opposite number, Foreign Minister Wu Xueqian, Howe spent 90 minutes with Premier Zhao Ziyang in the Purple Light Pavilion, where Emperors once gave audiences to "barbarians" bringing tribute. Finally, the Foreign Secretary went on to the Great Hall of the People and spent an additional 40 minutes with Deng Xiaoping, China's de facto leader, who has elevated the recovery...
...love your motherland, but does she love you?" The following month, Bai was given a national award for his poetry by the Ministry of Culture. When Bai wrote another play last year, he took the precaution of setting it in the uncontroversial past. Sure enough, however, King of Wu 's Spear and King of Yue's Sword was castigated for "attacking the present by explaining the past." Says another noted playwright: "The general attitude of intellectuals is wait and see. There are still gusts of wind. It will take time to cool down...
They saw their first bobsled race, on television, during the Innsbruck Games in 1976-and they were hooked. Bobsledding on Taiwan? On a subtropical island? "People stare at us a lot," says one Taiwan delegate. Undeterred, Wu Chung-chou, 27, and his brother Wu Dien-cheng, 25, keep in shape running and lifting weights and come to race in key European competitions. Their major complaint: lack of up-to-date equipment. They drive an old Italian-made two-man sled. "The equipment of all the participants should be the same," said the younger Wu. "But for a country without...