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Commentary Since last October, six departments of the Hong Kong government have criticized the cartoons of Zunzi, Hong ...

(Archived document, may contain errors) 558 I i I I I January 20, 1987 1 NICARAGUA INTRODUCTION A BLUEPRINT FOR DEMOCRACY The democratic aspirations of Nicaraguans have been suppressed by Just this week, the United Nicaraguan dictatorships of both left and right for most of thei r nation's history. Yet the chances for democracy's emergence in Nicaragua seem better now than ever before.

When I began teaching Chinese history at Harvard in 1936 my first students turned out to be the brightest I would ever have—Theodore White as an undergraduate and Mary Clabaugh as a Ph.D. candidate. Mary Clabaugh was a Vassar graduate from Tuscaloosa who came to study international history but turned to China when she heard about it. She married another Harvard graduate

The longtime Yale professor's 870-page bestseller in 1990, “The Search for Modern China,” is often credited with popularizing Chinese studies.

1. In April 1924 Rabindranath Tagore arrived in Shanghai for a lecture tour of China. Soon after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, Tagore had become an international literary celebrity, lecturing to packed audiences from Japan to Argentina. His message—that modern civilization, built upon the cult of money and power, was inherently destructive, and needed to be tempered by the spiritual wisdom of the East—had a receptive audience among many people in the West who had been forced by World War I to question their faith in science and progress. But when, traveling in the East...