Friday marks late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's 110th birthday
August 22, 2014, Friday
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PRESIDENT Xi Jinping yesterday vowed to uphold socialism with Chinese characteristics and China’s independent “path, theory and system” ahead of the 110th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping. Addressing
August 21, 2014, Thursday
HUANG Yan got married in the summer of 1991 and moved into her husband’s home on Yuanshen Road in Pudong. Her parents were happy about the marriage but also concerned about her moving to the “countryside.”
August 18, 2014, Monday
AT the end of 1991, Zhang Xiong invited several good friends to dinner at his home. Over the meal, an old college roommate started complaining about his job. He worked in a local bank, where his assignment
August 18, 2014, Monday
IN 1974, Deng Xiaoping addressed a special session of the United Nations General Assembly, three years after People’s Republic was recognized by the UN as the official representative of China. In his
August 18, 2014, Monday
EZRA Vogel, a Harvard scholar who has written extensively on China and Asia, spent 10 years exhaustively researching the life and times of former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. He read and verified material
August 18, 2014, Monday
“EXAMINATION 1977” is a 2009 movie about the restoration of China’s national college entrance examination or gaokao after the 10-year “cultural revolution” (1966-76) and its impact on both old and young
August 18, 2014, Monday
THOSE who took gaokao in 1977, 1978 and 1979 came to be known as the “three new generations.” They were considered to be the smartest, most competitive and hardest-working university students the country
August 18, 2014, Monday
ON a rainy day in April 1978, Wang Zhi, then 31 years old, secured the final book of the 17-volume “Math, Physics and Chemistry Self-Learning Series.” He had gone to some effort to get the books for the
August 18, 2014, Monday
SHANGHAI Baosteel In 1978, Deng visited Japan, where he toured Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal. He asked the company to “help us build a company like yours.” The result was the creation of then state-of-the-art
August 18, 2014, Monday
Deng Xiaoping has remained a legend in China’s modern history. The older generation remembers the miracles he wrought to improve daily lives; the younger generation is schooled in the list of his remarkable
August 18, 2014, Monday
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