Word: wu
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...collection, made possible through a $50,000 alumni grant, marks the beginning of a special post-Revolutionary China archive at the library, said Eugene Wu, Yenching librarian. The collection will include photographs, literature, documents, video and audio tapes, eyewitness reports and student correspondences, Wu said...
Charles L. Smith Jr. '50 and Lois Smith donated the gift that established the collection, Wu added. "We feel we have a duty to collect and preserve these kind of primary materials as a witness to history for posterity," he said...
Columbia, the University of Chicago and Yale are planning similar collections, MacFarquar said. Wu expects to meet with those involved by the end of the year...
...wall of one of the newest buildings in Wu's village is a saying widely heard during the Cultural Revolution two decades ago: PREPARE FOR WAR, PREPARE FOR NATURAL DISASTERS, SERVE THE PEOPLE. Wu makes no apologies. "Of course I know the slogan's origins," he says. "But there is nothing wrong with those words. We should use more of what Mao taught. His themes were self- reliance and sacrifice. I say to our leaders, more of that and less riding around in fancy cars...
...What we have today is a lot of talk about ending corruption and nepotism," Wu continues. "Just like we've heard before. But unless we finally get serious about such things, we will never build our New China. We will watch Chinese on the outside rise in even white societies because of their industry and intellect. We will never catch...