Word: pu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back to the Boondocks. But the country side seems to want no part of pu rity. Passive resistance continues among the peasants - apparently with some connivance on the part of the army. There are complaints from revolutionary committees, which are now the governing bodies in China, that lower-ranking of ficers at district and county levels are not following orders, are in fact making their own decisions-presumably because they are siding with the peasants The most specific complaints have come from Kweichow province where the provincial revolutionary committee has hac to remind local commanders that the relationship between them...
...Died. Pu Yi, 61, last Emperor of China and from 1932 to 1945 Japan's puppet ruler of Manchuria; of cancer; in Peking. Heir to the 300-year-old Ch'ing dynasty, the "Son of Heaven" was enthroned as Emperor in 1908 at the age of two, and cried throughout the ceremony. Four years later, his overthrow by Sun Yat-sen marked the fall of the world's oldest empire. His life from then on was marked by three decades of royal fantasy, first as a virtual prisoner of the republican government in Peking's Forbidden...
...nunc ipse in imo est, vobis ostentari paratus. Winnie ille Pu." Hardly the sort of prose one expects to read in a bestseller. But a bestseller was exactly what Alexander Lenard's Latin translation of A. A. Milne's classic turned out to be. Winnie Ille Pu sold 100,000 copies. On every reader's parsed lips was the question: Who was Translator Alexander Lenard...
...pu ts'ung k'an contains his and literary texts dating from 600 to the twentieth century. It includes basic material for the scholar, most untranslated elsewhere. Teachine research in Chinese studies are impossible without these texts...
Elde and his colleagues counted the 600,000 pages and collated the texts of three sets of the Sau-pu ts'ung k'an to prepare it for reprinting. The 250-volume reprint edition will cost $3000 a set when re-issued...