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When President Chiang met to discuss this week's story with Hong Kong Bureau Chief Sandra Burton and Taipei Stringer Don Shapiro, it was the leader's first interview with U.S. journalists in more than a year. After the 40-minute session, an aide handed Burton an envelope. In it were Chiang's written answers to questions submitted by TIME three months earlier. The responses...
...guise of four years in a Japanese prison camp, where, perhaps not too astonishingly, he loses his faith--and the "East"--in his capture, after returning to China to help in reconstruction in 1950, by the triumphant Communists, who have successfully turned Western knowledge against both the Japanese and Chiang Kaishek's Nationalists. Some of the very same villagers he taught to read participate in the deliberately Jesus-like crowd denunciation of his "imperialism...
...brisk October morning last year, Henry Liu, 52, a businessman and part-time journalist, was shot dead by Asian gunmen outside his home in Daly City, Calif. Liu's widow suspected that the murder was politically motivated. Under the pen name of Chiang Nam (River South), Liu had written books and articles that assailed Taiwan. "It was a terrorist killing," said Jerome Garchik, Mrs. Liu's lawyer. "Henry Liu was killed to silence his work and also to intimidate Chinese living in America." U.S. officials say that Liu had apparently acted at various times as an agent or informant...
White is curator of an exhibition called "Ban Chiang: Discovery of a Lost Bronze Age" that goes on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City this week. The exhibit, which travels to Los Angeles in March, is sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania and the National Museum of Thailand, both of which organized the major dig at the site in 1974-75. During the excavation, archaeologists and Thai officials battled looting and cave-ins to extract artifacts from the 62-acre mound...
Until the discovery of Ban Chiang, Southeast Asia had been largely dismissed by scholars as a cultural dead end. Rice cultivation was thought to have been introduced to Southeast Asia by way of China or the Near East. Metalworking techniques were said to have come from Mesopotamia or China...