Word: zhao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zhao Jinglun's apartment on Ware St. in Cambridge is neither large nor luxurious. A couch, an easy chair and a small desk provide the room's only furnishings; two Chinese scrolls dominate the otherwise blank beige walls. A radio plays soft classical music. Zhao's private quarters are similarly sparse--a night table, a chest of drawers and a neatly made bed. In the kitchen, where Zhao stands over the stove cooking lunch for his guest, there is little but the essentials. A small table covered with an oil cloth (and a glass bowl holding seven oranges...
...Zhao, who has spent much of the last 30 years living and working in Beijing, his three rooms seem almost princely. As managing editor of the Foreign Languages Distribution and Publications Bureau of the People's Republic, Zhao, his wife and two daughters all live in three rooms. Their apartment, which rents for about 10 Chinese dollars a month, has no bathroom. And Zhao and his family are relatively lucky--they have a telephone, a privilege normally reserved for higher-level party bureaucrats and cadres...
...desk in Zhao's living room sits an open copy of Daniel Bell's The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. It has been almost 30 years since Zhao has been a student of economics, 30 years since he has been in Cambridge. The last time around, he studied as a graduate student, passed his general examinations and was preparing to write a dissertation on "the gestation period of investment." But in December 1950, several months after the Korean War broke out, Zhao decided to return home...
Three decades later to the month, Zhao once again attends lectures in Harvard Yard. Things are different, he says, looking out the window of his apartment in search of a memory of Cambridge in the late '40s. They use more mathematics in economics classes, and the noise in the Square is much louder. And Zhao is no longer studying for a degree. As a member of this year's class at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and the first fellow from the People's Republic, he's come to Harvard for a crash course in the modern world...
...year of education and general socializing--goes through a reeducation process of sorts. Away from the frenetic pace of the newsroom--and not permitted to engage in commercial work--the fellow studies a field that he is interested in and that might some day help his own career. For Zhao, whose work includes editing a monthly periodical of translations from the Western press (circulated to a limited number of Chinese officials) and writing a column about the current scene in the United States, that field has been rather broad. "I want to learn more about the United States--politics, government...