Word: yi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know anything about African culture before I started working on Roots," he explains. "If you do hard research, you can fill in your knowledge of any culture." As part of that research, Haley visited Peking's Forbidden City with Pu Jie, the only surviving brother of Emperor Pu Yi, who was deposed in 1911. If Haley was still learning about China, the Chinese seemed to know all about him; Roots has sold over 200,000 copies in translation there. Says he: "I found myself signing more autographs in the Forbidden City than in Atlanta...
...Roman Catholicism in Korea. The influence of Christian churches in South Korea was evident on Sunday when, right after the "shooting" scare, the Pope presided over rites canonizing 103 martyrs, the first such group ceremony outside of Rome. The new saints were killed under 19th century monarchs of the Yi dynasty, who suppressed what was then a tiny, alien sect. The site of the canonization Mass, Seoul's Yoido Plaza, is usually reserved for the May 8 observance of Buddha's birthday. But since the Catholics' ten-story cross and shell-shaped altar were too monumental...
More than a fortnight ago, the Gimo wrote Nationalist General Fu Tso-yi in Peiping of his decision to retire. The letter instructed Fu to make his own plans...
...bundles. From time to time, one of the onlookers would shriek in horror, catching sight of the distorted features of a friend or family member. At one point, a woman torn by grief stood over one of the bloated corpses waving a scarf and a handful of personal letters. "Yi, yi, are you my husband?" she screamed. "My God, who will help me? All my sons are gone. My husband is gone. What am I going to do? God-oh, my God!" Those who could recognize their murdered relatives were allowed to carry them away for private burial; the remainder...
...asked her if the authorities had treated her badly. Lu responded with a faint smile and said they had not, Gerrit van Derwees, U.S. coordinator for the ICDHRT, said earlier this week after talking with lawyers for the dissidents. As Lu met with her siblings, another prisoner, Lin Yi-hsiung, a lawyer and legal adviser to Formosa Magazine, told his mother that he had signed a confession involuntarily. Lin's mother later called a friend in Japan to describe her son's condition. Two hours after she made the call, she and Lin's two young daughters were found dead...