Word: yuan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farm. "I have many things already," he says. "A bicycle, a watch. We have a sewing machine. At the end of this year, I will first return the money I borrowed from the brigade. My goal next year? To buy a television set. It will cost 400 yuan [$280]. After that our income will grow, and life will keep on getting better...
...JOURNALIST. "Most important are the changes in the fundamentals," says Yuan Xianlu, 52, foreign affairs editor of the official Communist Party newspaper, the People's Daily, which has a worldwide circulation of 6.3 million. Yuan, a tall, wiry man who has been with the paper for three decades, warns that easy political slogans and simplified explanations will not solve China's problems. He has seen too many of them before. "Many people say that everything bad is the fault of the Gang of Four," he says. "Some of our friends in the West have had doubts about this...
...misleading. Certainly she is not known to have engaged in any illegal ventures before the Kaohsiung riot. Jablin's portrayal of her as an anti-government revolutionary can be diluted by pointing out that she was appointed to the Commission on Laws and Regulations in the Executive Yuan (the Cabinet). She served as a specialist in charge of petition cases for four years until she left voluntarily to continue her feminist work...