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...Jinxing television store on Nanjing Avenue, by women at the First Department Store's display of pleated skirts. In neither location are the displayed goods in stock. Other young people simply while away the hours gazing at goldfish from the deck of the Yu Gardens Tea House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Jobless Generation | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

Piano Recital--Joyce Yu-Cheng Chung; work of Faure, Liszt, Chopin; Currier House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar April 19-April 25 | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

People of all ages stop to buy rice porridge or yu-t'iao, a deep-fried cruller that sells for 20. Others, in every available space, are somberly engaged in t'ai-chi-ch'uan, the balletic, trancelike exercise that is supposed to tone all muscles and compose the soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: China Says: Ni hao! | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson controlled play for much of the second half but could not strike paydirt until Tom Barber took a fine centering pass from Rich Yu and fired it into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minutemen Thwart J.V. Booters, 2-1 | 10/5/1978 | See Source »

DIED. Paul Yu Pin, 77, China's only Roman Catholic Cardinal; of a heart attack; in Rome, where he had gone to participate in the Vatican conclave that will elect a successor to Pope Paul VI. After the Chinese Catholic Church was shattered in 1949 by the Communists, the towering Yu Pin (6 ft. 3 in.) was ordered by Pope Pius XII to abandon his diocese of Nanking for the U.S., and was condemned to death in absentia by the Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 28, 1978 | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

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