Word: deng
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...through tricky visa applications and advise them to elude the police by immediately boarding a train after blanketing a town with religious material. Evangelists are taught to speak in code, referring to the Bible as "bread" and God as "the boss." "You can't be too careful," says Joe Deng, who has made some 40 trips to underground churches in China over the past decade. "One wrong move, and you could get dozens of innocent people arrested...
...seat concert hall. The cultural overhaul has taken nearly a half-century to get under way: former Premier Zhou Enlai first conceived of a national stage in 1958, but plans languished during both the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution and the no-frills practicality of the Deng Xiaoping era. It took President Jiang Zemin to convince the country's leaders that Beijing needed to replace its fraying theaters with a new cultural landmark. It is the city's biggest public cultural landmark since Mao Zedong's mausoleum was built...