Word: zhou
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...whole 1946 film, starring Jean Marais and Josette Day, is projected on a screen, with English subtitles but without its sound track. Flanked by a seven-piece band of winds and synthesizers (one played by Glass himself), Alexandra Montano (la Belle), Hallie Neill, Gregory Purnhagen (la Bete) and Zheng Zhou stand beneath the screen singing Glass's operatic setting of the script. Glass not only had to get the rights to the film, he also had to pay not to use composer Georges Auric's score; and while he secured his permissions, his act of lese-majeste has apparently upset...
...were social nuclei, providing their workers with everything from cheap housing, education and medical care to free haircuts. "Government departments in charge of these enterprises don't want to see them go bankrupt because they will be the ones in charge of the welfare of the unemployed workers," says Zhou Shulian, a senior fellow in the Institute of Industrial Economics in Beijing...
...trip to China was a strategic gambit of vast importance. At the depth of the Cold War, Richard Nixon and Zhou Enlai saw how china and America could work together. America's involvement with china strengthened the hand of those who sought to turn away from the excesses of Maoism, including Zhou's heir, Den Xiaoping. Almost until the time of his death, Nixon sought to do what he could to maintain good relations between these two great nations...
There is no evidence that Mao Zedong knew cannibalism was being practiced during the Cultural Revolution. When Premier Zhou Enlai heard about the crimes in Guangxi, he ordered party officials to put a stop to them. Nonetheless, according to Zheng, amid the anarchy of the times cannibalism apparently persisted in Guangxi. "I believe Zheng's story," says Perry Link, a professor of Chinese at Princeton. "He's a writer of integrity, and the rich detail has the ring of authenticity." Chinese officials now disclaim any knowledge of the practice. Said a Public Security official in Beijing: "I've never heard...
...Zhou is one of more than a dozen Chinesedissidents to study at Harvard. Gao Xin, who alsonegotiated with Chinese troops at Tiananmen, was aguest scholar last year