Word: yuan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wonderful things would continue to be produced for the Chinese imperial courts right down to the 19th century. In pottery, the innovation of blue glaze designs painted on a white ground belongs to the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1272-1368); but it reached its finest period under the later Ming Emperors in such objects as an early 15th century porcelain vase with a furious blue dragon galumphing around it, all its spikes and scales and fierce serpent rhythms contrasting with the suave, plump profile of the vase...
Such is the effect of an American foreign policy that sees the national interest as the self-interest which is good for business. In return for China's yuan, the United States will place its abuse of human rights on the back burner. The Clinton Administration perpetuates Sino-American trade even at the cost of Tibetan repression, the suppression of free thought and the jailing of dissidents. Dollars come before democracy when the pair cannot be promoted together...
...Suixi. U.S. officials insist the two diplomats were traveling with the permission of the Chinese government. So why the expulsion? Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz reports that the Chinese may simply be retaliating for the Clinton Administration's decision to grant a transit visa to Taiwanese Vice President Li Yuan-zu: "Such moves pique China, because in Beijing's view it is tantamount to giving official recognition to Taiwan, which Beijing considers a mere renegade province. Indeed, China protested Washington's move, but analysts here note that Beijing's reaction was in fact quite mild compared to its vehement outrage...
...Saturday Taiwan announced that its Vice President, Li Yuan-zu, has been granted a U.S. transit visa allowing him to stop overnight in Los Angeles as he travels to and from a Jan. 14 presidential inauguration in Guatemala. China, which claims Taiwan as a province, had declared that it "resolutely opposed" such a move. Last June Beijing withdrew its ambassador from Washington after the U.S. let Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui attend a Cornell University reunion...
Herschbach, a professor of chemistry at Harvard since 1963, shared the Nobel Prize in 1986 with John Polanyi and Yuan Lee for their study of chemical reactions using molecular beams...