Word: ying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ying is a believer. The 24-year-old taxi driver, dressed in a trendy T shirt and jeans, is an ardent follower of Mazu, the sea goddess of peace. As a child, she was brought by her parents to a temple dedicated to the deity on Meizhou Island, off the coast of China's Fujian province. There, despite living in an officially atheistic nation, she was taught to worship. The goddess, says Mei, "is very receptive and answers all my prayers...
...Ying-jeou returned to his old stomping grounds at Harvard Law School, where he had picked up his doctorate nearly two decades earlier, last week. But Ma, the second popularly elected mayor of Taipei since 1967, came back to Cambridge a figure of global importance, whose career is pivotal to stability in Sino-Taiwanese relations...
...think some people cared, especially the people who definitely wanted to vote no, but...I think there are more important things than that," adds Ying...
Among the other issues discussed was the significance of Jiang's visit on U.S.-Sino relations highlighted by Ying-Mao Kau, professor of political science at Brown University...
...Chinese to manage their affairs, do you think the wisdom of one of the oldest and largest civilizations could overlook it, and that she has to be reminded by the U.S. "human rights protectors" who could "care for their well being more than the Chinese people themselves"? --Ying Liu '00, co-president, China Current