Word: zhang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their own country," says Pan Wenguo, former head of international Chinese studies at Fudan University in Shanghai. Few see the bombing as a mistake that can be forgiven after a simple apology. "We will have to wait for the new [U.S.] President before the situation will improve," says Zhang Yebai, an expert on Sino-U.S. relations at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences...
...build little robots that do things, then they've got to have muscles," says Paul Calvert, a materials scientist at the University of Arizona. He uses polymer gels to construct "Jell-O jacks," which resemble the wobbly dessert but are capable of raising and lowering small objects. Agrees Qiming Zhang, an electrical engineer at Pennsylvania State University: "The only bottleneck is that we haven't found the perfect muscle materials...
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...
...Zhang did not attend the screening. Zhou will attend an 8 p.m. screening tonight of The Emperor's Shadow. Government censors in China have not yet approved his film Common People, which will be shown Tuesday at 4 p.m. Zhou will lead a discussion after the film...
...problem. With China's exports down 6.7% last month and foreign investment predicted to shrink 30% for the year, the government has embarked on a huge program of domestic spending to stimulate demand. "It is the old pattern in China--three steps forward and two steps back," says Joe Zhang, head of China research for HSBC Securities in Hong Kong. "At the moment we are backtracking." Says Andy Xie, chief China economist for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Hong Kong: "If they continue, they will end up renationalizing the economy. And that is not the way China needs...