Word: yuan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GRADUATED. NANCY RUTH MACE, 21, the first female cadet to finish at the Citadel; in Charleston, S.C. CHIH-YUAN HO, 23, and MELISSA KAY GRAHAM, 21, the first women to complete training at the Virginia Military Institute; in Lexington, Va. Mace, who received her magna cum laude degree from her father, the school's commandant of cadets, also announced her engagement to a classmate...
Saturday night the film archive showed East Palace, West Palace, a film directed by Yuan Zhang that was banned in China because it includes homosexual themes...
...words may have come from a Boston economist, but the inspiration clearly came from the country Mahathir touts as the East's answer to U.S. world dominance: China. Ironically, it has been China that has been the West's great consolation in this crisis: By refusing to devalue the yuan, even as slowing growth threatens to derail her own emergence as a first-world economy and nation, China has kept a bad situation from getting much worse. Strict currency controls -- its invisible Great Wall against the briefcase-wielding Western barbarians -- have allowed China this bravery...
...this technology costs quite a lot of yuan. Due mainly to the limited resources of many mainland families, computers and the Internet are not all that accessible, even for college students there. Unless computer and Internet use become more common, efforts to establish a two-way forum for exchanging democratic ideas will not be effective...
...that downgraded and even destroyed fine culture and art are all erroneous. I am the President of the People's Republic of China, but I am also an ordinary citizen, and I have my own interests and hobbies. For instance, I read Tang dynasty poems, Song dynasty lyrics and Yuan dynasty verses, and some of Dante, Shakespeare, Balzac, Tolstoy and Mark Twain. All of these give me great enjoyment. I also like to listen to Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Strauss, Tchaikovsky. And I listen to some of your famous American pieces. At the beginning of this year I read a book...