Word: xiamen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dime a dozen, but few can cast serious problems in so humorous a light--and move the audience not only to laugh but also to do something. I hope the 69-year-old straight-shooting, side-splitting Premier is around for a long time to come. WILLIAM N. BROWN Xiamen, China...
...just really distressed that the media are sending back trivial information about the rain and the buses," said Rosalie Bertell, a Canadian epidemiologist. "There is other, substantive stuff going on here." Observed Janice Engberg, an American who teaches at China's Xiamen University: "Some people have had incredibly horrible experiences, while some people are absolutely elated to be here. This is the most exciting 10 days in their lives." A reminder of the old, often misquoted Chinese curse: May you live in exciting times...
...stepped off the shuttle bus to the main terminal of Xiamen Airport and into a thick web of southern Chinese humidity and family...
...Well, hi," I smiled and looked out the window at flooded rice fields that reached from the sunset to the edge of the highway. We talked about my itinerary for the week: Xiamen, my grandparents' tombs, this and that famous temple and mountain; what I'd seen in Beijing: the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, the Great Wall; where else I'd been: Xinjiang, Xian, Tianjin...
...Republic remains huge, the two Chinas have scheduled private talks in Singapore within the next few weeks that could be the first step toward closer ties. The agenda may include the introduction of direct transportation links, perhaps starting with service between the Taiwan-controlled island of Quemoy and Xiamen, one of the mainland's free-marketeering special economic zones. Why talk now? Both sides may be concerned about recent electoral gains in Taiwan made by the country's pro-independence forces, which are unbudgingly opposed to unification...