Word: xia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fulbright fellowships; in Washington. From the beginning of his political career, Fulbright focused on world affairs, submitting as a freshman Representative in 1943 the resolution that ultimately helped create the United Nations; he initiated the scholars' exchange program two years later, when he reached the Senate. DIED. XIA YAN, 94, prominent literary figure in China's film, theater and book circles, whose communist credentials did not protect him from persecution during the Cultural Revolution; in Beijing. Xia is considered the grandfather of China's grandly propagandistic, procommunist movies, notably his 1930s screenplays of such epics as Wild Torrent and Twenty...
Zhao Li, 25, one of many who choose to xia hai (plunge into the sea), quit her state-assigned job as an interpreter to work in a foreign-owned public relations firm. Her salary quintupled and she moved into her own two-room apartment. When her parents tell Zhao that her friends are all having children, she replies, "I have no time to be married." Chinese are marrying at a later age, casual premarital sex is more common, and the urban young increasingly choose their own spouses. "It used to be that Communist Party membership was important," said Wang Zhixiong...