Word: yi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pakistan overplayed the welcome? Not as far as visiting Communist Chinese President Liu Shao-chi was concerned. But President Mohammed Ayub Khan, his host, seemed to be having second thoughts last week as Pakistanis gave Liu, 68, and Foreign Minister Chen Yi, 65, the headiest welcome ever accorded state visitors to their country. After tumultuous greetings in Rawalpindi (TIME, April 1), perhaps 1,000,000 people poured into the streets of Lahore, the old Mogul capital, sprinkling rose water into the path of the Chinese, heaping flower petals on Liu's car, shouting "Long live Pakistan-China friendship...
...leaders were happy to turn a political profit. No sooner had the tank-and-jet performance completed last week's "Pakistan Day" celebrations than the Chinese collected the first installment of Ayub's debt. Into Rawalpindi flew Red Chinese President Liu Shao-chi and Foreign Minister Chen Yi for five days of talks and ceremonies. They were swept through Rawalpindi in a bubble-topped yellow Daimler amid flower-throwing crowds that accorded the Chinese the warmest welcome since Sheik Abdullah, "the Lion of Kashmir," visited two years...
Thailand's infant but active guerrilla war falls into the familiar pattern of Communist subversion in Southeast Asia, and has disturbing similarities to the beginning of the war in Viet Nam. Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi, in fact, pointedly predicted last year that the struggle in Thailand would soon start. For their launching spot, the Communists picked a remote region of Thailand that is not only backward economically (annual income is well below the $100 national average) but harbors people who are ethnically closer to the Laotians than to the Thais. Many village youths, impatient with...
...Bards began in the 18th century, and before long, these professional singers had assembled enormous anthologies of sijo. In one of them occurs a macabre little lyric by Yi Jong-bo that reads like one of Rimbaud's more lurid Illuminations...
Sijo are still written in Korea and, as might be expected in such troublous times, their burden once more is often political. This one, not included in The Ever White Mountain, was written in 1954, at the end of the Korean War, by Yi Un-sang, the foremost living sijo poet...