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Word: xinhua (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...profit. An aircraft factory in Xi'an runs a marriage-introduction center that does a booming business serving the needs of hundreds of well- educated women who by their late 20s are desperate for husbands because men with less schooling are reluctant to marry them. In Chengdu the Xinhua bookstore owns a flower shop, a hair salon and a clothing boutique whose manager gets his goods from "a guy in Shanghai who has good guanxi." In Shanghai itself the city's world-famous acrobats attract bigger audiences by sponsoring fashion shows between tumbles. A university in Guangdong has branched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...metaphor for Xinhua (New China), the Kai Kong mural is perfect. And no area in New China has taken more readily to Deng's economic freedoms than Guangdong, the province on the southeastern coast that borders Hong Kong. Famous for being shrewd businessmen, Guangdong's residents also have a long tradition of ignoring imperial edicts. Even today the province negotiates its tax remittances to Beijing, in part because the national government's ability to control various localities differs greatly depending on an area's wealth, strategic significance and the personal connections and acumen of its leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang sent a message to the students early Wednesday promising the government would "work out concrete measures to enhance democracy and law, oppose corruption, build an honest and clean government and expand openness," the official news agency Xinhua reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: China, USSR Resume Friendly Relations | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

...Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, said people shouted "Welcome! Welcome!" and cheered when Gorbachev said he and Deng had normalized relations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: China, USSR Resume Friendly Relations | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

...Gorbachev told the masses the Soviet and Chinese peoples enjoy a very good friendship," Xinhua said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: China, USSR Resume Friendly Relations | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

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