Word: yuan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robin T. Yuan '74, president of the CSA, said yesterday that little could probably be done to reinstate Mao, but added, "what we'd like to do is to consider not only her case but the whole question of hiring and firing in the East Asian Department...
...plan to interview several people in the department about tenure practices, and send out a supplement to our newsletter with our findings," Yuan explained...
While the statement called for Mao to be "rehired if at all possible," Yuan said yesterday, "our interest is now more in the whole issue. We want to investigate it, and Mrs. Mao has agreed with...
Mysterious Allusion. Painting, therefore, was a more natural extension of thought for the Chinese than it is for us, and its special value lay in a harmonious spontaneity: knowledge without spadework. A 9th century scholar, Chang Yen-Yuan, described this ideal...
...group of orientalists headed by Vadime Elisseeff, chief curator of the Musée Cernuschi in Paris. Encyclopedic in scope-the objects on display range from rudimentary quartz and flint scrapers used by Peking Man in 500,000 B.C. to the exquisite porcelains and silver toilet articles of the Yuan dynasty, which ended in A.D. 1368-it is intelligently mounted, with unobtrusive panels of photos, documents and information: an ideal teaching show, in fact. But unlike most didactic exhibitions, it is crammed with masterpieces of breathtaking authority...