Word: yuans
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...entrance to the Jade Temple, one sign said admission cost 10 yuan, another said 20 yuan. My parents insisted that it said 10 yuan in the guidebook, and they wanted to pay that. The lady selling the tickets had limited English, so MacDuff was supposed to translate our request...
...yuan,” he cajoled...
...consider this. Kublai Khan won the battle of Xiangyang, unified China and started the Yuan Dynasty, which lasted for nearly 100 years. How? In the end, the Mongols invented a new weapon, a catapult that was way more accurate, and five times more powerful, than the old model. The six-year siege ended abruptly within days of the new weapon's appearance...
Family, exile, ethnic violence: all have dominated American poet Li-Young Lee's quietly probing, impressionistic poetry since the publication of his first and widely acclaimed volume, Rose, in 1986. Lee's maternal great-grandfather, the would-be dictator Yuan Shikai, was the first President of the Republic of China, while the poet's father briefly served as Mao's personal physician. The family fled the Chinese civil war for Jakarta - where Lee was born in 1957 - and were forced to move again, in 1959, after his father landed in jail during the course of one of Sukarno's anti...
...yawning deficit with China is today. Japan was using "unfair" trade practices to disadvantage U.S. industry, many Americans believed. The Japanese were "manipulating" their currency, the yen, to make their exports extra cheap in the U.S. market, in the same way China is accused of currently doing with the yuan. Americans freaked when Japanese companies bought supposedly priceless U.S. assets like Rockefeller Center and Columbia Pictures; today, Americans freak out when Chinese firms even attempt to purchase anything on U.S. soil. American manufacturers cried out for protection against the evil Japanese onslaught orchestrated by the sinister Ministry of International Trade...