Word: yin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each large room, many others live in temporary, ramshackle shelters made of bamboo and straw mats. Like the other workers, the newcomers are paid standard wages of $17 a month, plus rations of rice, meat and oil. The refugees have strained the resources of the farm, said Farm Director Yin Dayong. "Before, the farm provided 390,000 lbs. of grain to the state. This year it incurred a loss...
...daily life, that controls what a Chinese can read, where he can travel, how he should live. Despite the omnipresence of this Orwellian machinery, many practices of the feudal past are observed. In the privacy of their homes, there are many peasant families who still pray to Kuan-yin, the goddess of mercy, and burn incense to their ancestors. Ouija boards are regularly consulted to foretell the future. On the communes, matchmakers arrange marriages and would-be bridegrooms pay traditional bride prices, although now with a socialist tinge: an industrious girl who earns many work points (on which salaries...
...Rainbow Gathering Healing Festival, a collection of people who believe they are the fulfillment of a Hopi prophecy that said five generations after the white men destined to live in harmony with the great Spirit of the Earth. Karma, reincarnation, natural foods, meditation, tai chi, buddhism, astrology, yin and yang, ecology, TM, astral projection, cosmic consciousness, acid--anything spiritual or far out and freaky was right on with these people. I got to the gathering--7000 hippies in a cold, wet, muddy meadow in Boondocks, Oregon with dogs, goats and drunken people and a huge, disgusting pot of beans--this...
FICTION: A Good School, Richard Yates ∙ Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙ Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, Gabriel Garcia Mdrquez ∙ Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi ∙ The World According to Garp, John Irving
...Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen...