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Your 75th-anniversary edition was a winner. On long, dark, lonely nights around Phu Cat air base in Quen Yan, South Vietnam, in 1968, my friend--along with my M-16 rifle--was my closest companion. Today if I leave the house without my friend, I feel I have forgotten something. I'm sure you know that friend is TIME. FRED KING East Northport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 30, 1998 | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...welcome [Jiang] because it is important for American and Chinese people to set a good relationship," said Yan Yingfei, a Chinese citizen who works in Cambridge...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chinese Nationalists Cheer Jiang | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...Yan, with a broad smile and enthusiastic nod, said he was proud that his president was visiting the United States...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chinese Nationalists Cheer Jiang | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...totalitarian government. What the students of Harvard have to realize is that even though the Communist Party has been in power since 1949, the legacy of Mao and Deng has not lived on. China and its government today are ever changing and very different than what it was. --Susan Yan Tang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legacy of Mao And Deng Has Not Lived On | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

Rather than a sustained and incisive presentation of religious influences on Chinese painting, what unfolds is a series of scrolls incredibly rich in calligraphic detail and historical import. All are completely unrolled and elegantly presented in cases that run along the entire length of the gallery. They range from Yan Liben's Thirteen Emperors' Scroll, the only surviving visual record of a series of Chinese emperors, to the scrolls of the famous emperor and artistic patron Huizong, whose devotion to the arts cost him his throne, to the earliest portrait of Confucius. These paintings overwhelm the viewer not only with...

Author: By Paul A. Galvez, | Title: Two Rocks, Nine Dragons and 1000 Years of Chinese Painting | 4/24/1997 | See Source »

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