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...rumored successor in the Chiang family, Second Son Chiang Hsiao-wu, $ 40, a broadcasting executive, has suffered from being linked in the press, perhaps unfairly, with the Henry Liu affair. Besides, many in Taiwan are uncomfortable with the idea of a Chiang dynasty. For the moment, having survived the worst scandals in the KMT's 39-year rule of Taiwan, people are mostly hoping that the current Chiang remains in good health...
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...
...addition, Macartney's work is in the form of an eyewitness account. It is much like a diary, and not too many manuscripts of this kind exist," added Wu...
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...