Word: chrysanthemum
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...mourners came to remember a man who had embodied their hopes. Last week they filled a small courtyard in Beijing with chrysanthemum wreaths bearing ribbons of white, the Chinese color of death. One carried the inscription, "Go with an Easy Heart." The most liberal leader China's Communist Party has ever known died in seclusion on Jan. 17 after spending more than 15 years under house arrest in this modest home on Fuqiang Lane. Many ordinary Chinese remember Zhao Ziyang, who advocated political reform and opposed the Tiananmen Square massacre, as a symbol of their country's democratic aspirations...
...direction for them, and in so doing gain the cooperation of those around him." Amid this extraordinary show of public bickering, the government last month announced its decision to create an advisory board to begin considering a change in Japanese law to allow princesses to succeed to the Chrysanthemum Throne. With battles in the royal family, 2005 could be one of the best ever for Japanese tabloids...
...typewriter with a facsimile of a page from Red Star Over China still on the roller. The two sumptuously decorated Concubine Suites, complete with silk-draped, Ming-era opium beds, are designed for guests who, says Brahm, "always wanted to be a concubine?or have one." The Chairman's Chrysanthemum Suite is modeled on Mao's library and bedroom, where he received most of his visitors. The bookshelf above the antique bed is stacked with the Great Helmsman's favorites: Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Lo Kuan-chung's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Karl Marx...
...hidden her jar, she disappears. Searching for his wife, the fisherman finds her captured by a demon warrior and must rescue her with the aid of a cowardly elephant and a lame ox. Full of adventure, romance and magic, "The Yellow Jar" and its companion story, "Two Chrysanthemum Maidens," about of a pair of flower sisters who take up residence in a monk's prized garden, couldn't be more delightful...
...genius will be cemented. But failure will suggest he's just another local hero whose work couldn't transcend its parochial appeal. Through it all, he's struggling to sustain the punk/anarchist/anti-war/anti-mass media/manic image that makes him the icon of every angst-ridden teenager and 20-something in the chrysanthemum kingdom. "Life is beauty," says Takahashi with a smile that vacillates between gangster-like snicker and angelic beam. "But it's pain as well...