Word: xian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chinese contingent included the leaders of Peking University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiaotong, Tsinghua University and Xian Jiaotong...
Chinese university presidents participating are Chen Jia'er of Peking University, Jiang Shusheng of Nanjing University, Pan Yunhe of Zhejiang University, Wang Dazhong of Tsinghua University, Wang Shenghong of Fudan University, Xie Shengwu of Shanghai Jiaotong, Xu Tongmo of Xian Jiaotong...
...Farmers discover an army of life-size terra-cotta human figures in a 3rd century B.C. Chinese emperor's tomb near Xian...
...assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...
Even so, the trip began badly, overshadowed by China's denial of visas to reporters from Radio Free Asia and the sweeping up of dissidents in Xian. Then Clinton flew to Beijing and, for the world to see, reviewed a military honor guard in the infamous Tiananmen Square. That's when a grateful Jiang turned things around. An hour or so before he and Clinton were to begin their image-setting joint press conference, a Chinese official walked up to McCurry and asked to talk about the arrangements. It's important to get them right, he said, "because...