Word: yuan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agreement came following yesterday's meeting between the Chinese delegation, led by Chou Pei-Yuan, former president of Peking University, representatives of the University's East Asian studies program and several high-ranking University officials...
...Chou Pei-Yuan, a physicist and former president of Peking University, is leading the delegation. Ezra F. Vogel, professor of Sociology and director of the East Asian Research Center, said yesterday Chou is "the foremost academic figure in China...
...factory who grows uncomfortable around the strange American. There is Comerade Hung, an agricultural specialist who has been sent down from the universities to help Tachai build up its orchards, and who isn't completely happy in his exile to the countryside. And there is Ch'eng-yuan, a small boy who befriended Schell...
...Nationalist China, the defection to Taiwan last week of Communist Squadron Commander Fan Yuan-yen in his MiG-19 was the best piece of news since the death of Mao Tse-tung nearly a year ago. Radio stations played stirring martial music between special news flashes, and people set off firecrackers in the streets in celebration...
...admitted to the Shantung Provincial Experimental Art Theater at Tsinan. This was an art school, where I studied mainly modern drama but also some classical music and drama. I was only 15 then. The school provided free tuition and meals and an allowance of two yuan (about 60 U.S. cents) a month. I studied there only one year, but I learned a lot. I got up before daylight and tried to learn as much as possible. [The curriculum also included the special body movements used in Chinese opera, makeup, costuming, traditional Chinese musical instruments and even the piano, for three...