Richard Baum
Richard Baum
Richard Dennis Baumwas an American China watcher, Professor Emeritus of political science at UCLA, and former Director Emeritus of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, noted for his many academic works on Chinese politics. Baum creditted Rhoda Sutherland of Oxford University with inspiring his interest in linguistics...
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They shared the grievance that the government wasn't paying attention to ordinary people, that it was time to respond to the negative byproducts of economic reform. They considered the government to be arrogant, haughty and unresponsive.
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If they're not hitting the week's plan, they have to do something.
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Zhao Ziyang, on the other hand, was very much at the centre of that particular storm, and thus will be harder to rehabilitate.
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So they're going to downplay Taiwan, they're going to downplay human rights.
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Companies (retailers) are being very cautious about their guidance for the second quarter, so we're not completely taking it to heart that these (strong sales) results will carry through,
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Mike was a prime mover in the contemporary China field -- in some respects, the prime mover -- for much of the past three decades,
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The students in the square rained on Deng's parade,
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The one thing that everybody kind of has tucked into the back of their minds is that if there is some sort of event that affects a mall between now and Christmas. It's hard to say whether another plane crash like this is going to have much of an impact yet.
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The worst thing is to carry inventory over. Unless it's wine, it doesn't get better with age. It's basically better to sell it for 10 cents on a dollar than keep it.