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...spit them out again. In the mid-19th century, the fanatical Taiping rebels nearly overthrew the non-Chinese Manchu Dynasty with an eclectic ideology of primitive Communism and a wrathful Old Testament deity. In 1900, two years after the proclamation of Western-oriented reforms by the young Emperor Guang Xu, the Boxers, a peasant organization that aimed at ridding China of the presence and influence of Europeans, exploded in a burst of xenophobia, called for the ouster of all foreigners and fought a yearlong war with Western colonial troops dispatched to put down the uprising. Six decades later, following...
...Chinese performance? China had never gained the finals of any Olympic event, had in fact not competed in the Summer Games since 1952. But the People's Republic laid to rest all doubts about its athletic prowess on the first day in Los Angeles, when Pistol Shooter Xu Haifeng, 27, stood on the victory platform with a bird-of-paradise bouquet in his left hand and a gold medal around his neck. Said he: "I've come here representing a billion people, and they all had high expectations. China wants to wash away its image of being...
...first one in these Games and in the history of China was won by pistol-shooting Xu Haifeng, a fertilizer salesman recruited just three years ago on his rustic reputation for being handy with a slingshot. Throughout the week, the Chinese dominated the weight lifting, a Bulgarian and Soviet preserve, occasionally spicing the entertainment with wonderful backflips. From the top stand, Gold Medal Featherweight Chen WeiQuiang reached down and vigorously pumped the hand of Bronze Medalist Tsai Wen-Yee of Chinese Taipei, or Taiwan. "We are all Chinese" was the translation for both...
...reaction in Peking was fast and furious. In a chilly half-hour meeting, Vice Foreign Minister Han Xu delivered a stiff protest to American Ambassador Arthur Hummel Jr. Social contacts with American diplomats in China were instantly chilled, and cultural and athletic exchange programs were suspended for the rest of the year, the first official downgrading of ties by Peking since diplomatic relations between the two countries were formally restored in January 1979. At the minimum, the Hu Na incident symbolized the growing tensions between the Reagan Administration and the People's Republic. "The U.S. Government has kept doing...
...encouraged to follow such Utopian precepts as "Love the commune as you would love your own home." In these more realistic times, Chinese agricultural officials confess that such precepts were unworkable. "The speed of development in the past was not very fast," admits Peking Ministry of Agriculture Official Liu Xu-mao. It seems to have accelerated now that China's peasants no longer must eat out of one big communal...