Word: yanging
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...body that remained bound to the earth; there was no higher function for the artist than to turn out these ritual vessels. The intricate decoration not only warded off evil but provided a gateway for the artist's imagination. Fantastic animals, ogres' heads, symbols of the yang and yin, and finally the human figure, all made their appearance, and the bronzes themselves were never surpassed in the workmanship of later artisans...
Touring Canada on a buying mission for Red China, two Hong Kong traders named Liu Liang and Yang Lu-liang were as quiet as could be, seemed chiefly interested in eluding publicity. Canadians hoped they were also interested in grain, were moderately pleased fortnight ago to land a $5,300,000 order for barley. Last week Agriculture Minister Alvin Hamilton rose in Parliament to announce that the Red traders had expanded the order beyond his most optimistic hopes: just before taking off for Hong Kong, they signed a $60 million cash deal for 28 million bushels of wheat...
...part with $60 million of its low foreign exchange reserves confirmed that its agriculture is in serious trouble, not only from natural calamities but from a mismanaged attempt to speed industrialization by releasing manpower from farm communes. But the Canadian negotiators got no clue from Traders Liu and Yang on how serious Red China's food shortage may be. "They were very sensitive about the word famine," said Hamilton, "so we didn't talk about...
...Russians aimed to sell, the Hong Kong traders probably aimed to buy-although no one could be sure. All Ottawa knew was that the pair-one Liu Liang, a manager for the China Resources Co. who toured Canada in 1958. and a sidekick, Yang Lu-liang-had asked for hurry-up visas last month, and were seldom seen after they arrived all but unnoticed in Montreal aboard a Trans-Canada Airlines plane...
...official sent word to Washington, and the hunt was on. In Los Angeles a Chinese-American customs officer, masquerading as a prospective buyer, nailed down a young refugee named Paul Yang to whom Chen had entrusted a $12,000 bronze turtle. Sure enough, the turtle turned up in Yang's safe-deposit box, and last week Yang was slapped into jail...