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...whose career began in the 7th century as a 13-year-old court concubine and ended in an orgy of sex and assassination. Another execrated royal personage is the 8th century Emperor Hsüan Tsung, who was hopelessly enamored of a shapely concubine, Yang Kuei-fei. With characteristic Chinese panache, he built a summer palace for her with 16 bathing pools, where the lady was wont to wash her statuesque limbs under the Emperor's besotted gaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Beyond Confucius and Kung Fu | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...imperialist lackeys." Earlier this month, eight top Taiwanese athletes were invited by Peking to join China's national team trials for last week's Asian Games in Bangkok. All refused. After Carter's normalization announcement, Radio Peking trotted out two elderly former Nationalists, Liu Fei and Li Chung-lung, who said they would like to visit the island to "exchange views" with "old friends, including Mr. Chiang Ching-kuo," if the "Taiwan authorities" agreed. That offer was also flatly rejected by the Nationalists. Said Chiang Ching-kuo: "[There is] no way for me to allow these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: The Other China Stands Fast | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...member of the Australian Labor Party. Considered a friend by Peking, he was given more freedom to talk with officials and mingle with the people than most visitors are allowed. Because he speaks Chinese, he made the most of his talks with officials (from Chi P'eng-fei, the Acting Foreign Minister, to Chou En-lai) and time in the streets...

Author: By Chris Ma, | Title: Inside The Peoples' Republic | 6/14/1972 | See Source »

...fei, 62, Foreign Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Supporting Cast in Peking | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

Surprisingly, it was in the Chinese Medical Journal (which prints a lot of unscientific Communist quackery) that major progress was reported. T'ang Fei-Fan and colleagues in Peking described scrupulously conducted experiments in which they grew generations of the virus in fertilized eggs, gave it to monkeys, which got something like trachoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Led by the Blind | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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