Word: yi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tough, pragmatic survivor of the Long March era, Li has taken on more and more of the ceremonial duties of the Foreign Minister during the past year. Meanwhile Chen Yi, who still holds the title of Foreign Minister, has all but faded from view. Last September, Li headed Peking's delegation to the funeral of Ho Chi Minh. Since Ho was a particular friend of Peking, Li's rank was significant. A few days later, he was in the group that met Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin at Peking Airport. Last month Li was the first Chinese official...
When some move up, others must move down. Three of Chou's closest associates were dropped, among them Foreign Minister Chen Yi. All three had come under heavy Red Guard fire over the past three years, and analysts believe that Mao, despite Chou's attempts to protect them, decided that they were dispensable. In general, the Politburo now seems divided into three main groups: the Mao-Lin section (twelve members), which retains control; the People's Liberation Army segment (six members), which mistrusts Lin because he espoused the extremism and instability of the Cultural Revolution...
...they had not spied on their return home. Many, like Artist Eung Ro Lee, said that they had cooperated only to get news of relatives in North Korea. Said Lee: "I just wanted to see one of my sons supposedly residing in North Korea." "I visited Pyongyang," said Composer Yi Sang Yun, "merely to gather material for my music composition...
...Died. Pu Yi, 61, last Emperor of China and from 1932 to 1945 Japan's puppet ruler of Manchuria; of cancer; in Peking. Heir to the 300-year-old Ch'ing dynasty, the "Son of Heaven" was enthroned as Emperor in 1908 at the age of two, and cried throughout the ceremony. Four years later, his overthrow by Sun Yat-sen marked the fall of the world's oldest empire. His life from then on was marked by three decades of royal fantasy, first as a virtual prisoner of the republican government in Peking's Forbidden...
...Mounted on a simple wooden frame, the 15-by 19-in. manuscript bears 926 ancient Chinese characters in two blocks, surrounded by sixteen paintings of trees and weird mythological creatures. Dr. Jao Tsung-yi, professor of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong, believes it is "the most valuable find in the history of Chinese archaeology." His reasons: the Ch'u Silk Manuscript is the earliest and largest of its kind, and the larger the manuscript the easier it is to decipher unknown characters in context with known characters. In addition, says Dr. Jao, "it is a very important...