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  • Annie had promised to arrive in the morning, direct from Beijing, and Mae was having trouble concentrating while waiting.†   (source)
  • The anthropologist Yunxiang Yan has noted that in the eyes of Beijing consumers, McDonald's represents "Americana and the promise of modernization."†   (source)
  • I'm leaving for Beijing.†   (source)
  • They had no say in what to plant: the central government in Beijing decided that.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Penhallow—Jia—used to run the Beijing Institute.†   (source)
  • The Raison Strain has already entered the air space of London, Paris, Moscow, Beijing, New Delhi, Cape Town, Bangkok, Sydney, New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, and Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • The black-and-white photographs peer down from the walls, framed beside prizewinning stories of wars and upheavals and great tragedies, datelined Berlin, Beijing, Johannesburg, Moscow, any place news has been committed.†   (source)
  • Among the new Jason Bourne's clients was a madman in Beijing, a Kuomintang traitor in the government who was about to turn the Far East into a firestorm.†   (source)
  • Or the footage of angels plucking a military helicopter out of the sky and tossing it into the Beijing crowd, blade-first.†   (source)
  • He also organized rallies against the hard-liners in Beijing in the flag plaza of the UN.†   (source)
  • Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo.†   (source)
  • After you asked me, I wrote Jiu Jiu in Beijing.†   (source)
  • Simply eating at a McDonald's in Beijing seems to elevate a person's social status.†   (source)
  • Wikileaks publishing Pentagon plans for bombing Beijing?†   (source)
  • Like I was telling you, I want to write to the central leadership in Beijing.†   (source)
  • Jia Hong-yu continued: "It was so stirring to arrive in Beijing.†   (source)
  • Lunars in New Beijing—he'd never heard anything so absurd.†   (source)
  • COMM RECEIVED FROM NEW BEIJING DISTRICT 29, LETUMOSIS QUARANTINE.†   (source)
  • My brother did—you know, Jiu Jiu in Beijing.†   (source)
  • "RESIST AMERICA BEGINNING with Cola," said a banner at Beijing University in May of 1999.†   (source)
  • I need to speak with someone at New Beijing Palace right away.†   (source)
  • "Oh, your Chinese is the Beijing dialect, very elegant," LuLing said.†   (source)
  • Settling into the backseat, she told it to take her to New Beijing Palace.†   (source)
  • "Welcome to New Beijing's mechanic suite.†   (source)
  • "They say you're the best mechanic in New Beijing.†   (source)
  • My global positioning system indicates that we are in the 76th Sector of New Beijing.†   (source)
  • The year before your surgery, he unveiled an invention at the New Beijing science fair.†   (source)
  • COMM RECEIVED FROM NEW BEIJING DISTRICT 29, LETUMOSIS QUARANTINE.†   (source)
  • She would be taking no more customers in New Beijing.†   (source)
  • He told me Queen Levana is coming to New Beijing.†   (source)
  • Flights of fancy out of Beijing, Hong Kong-some concerning a man named Jason Bourne.†   (source)
  • Your lucky son has been chosen for Madame Mao's Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • My mother was younger than Patrick—he sent her to Paris when he went to Beijing.†   (source)
  • I want to get out of Beijing alive, and every second with you diminishes my prospects.†   (source)
  • Gallimard and Marc stumble down the Beijing streets.†   (source)
  • Is she the Occidental's contact here in Beijing?†   (source)
  • Aline's parents ran the Institute in Beijing for years.†   (source)
  • It is a summer night on the Beijing streets.†   (source)
  • Did we do the right thing, letting you go to Beijing at such a young age?†   (source)
  • Beijing would march into Hong Kong and take over.†   (source)
  • Luke remembered when Patrick had run off to the Beijing Institute and married her.†   (source)
  • The reports from Beijing are incredible!†   (source)
  • Beijing and other big cities would display magical lights and set off many fireworks.†   (source)
  • Chinese opera house and the streets of Beijing.†   (source)
  • The initial charge was trafficking in drugs, their network the Shanghai-Beijing axis.†   (source)
  • For our entrance the Bandit and I walked on with furiously fast heel-toe Beijing Opera walks.†   (source)
  • The trip to Beijing, the whole of the last twenty-four hours, all seemed like a dream.†   (source)
  • His client here in Beijing will alert the hotel operators.†   (source)
  • I knew I had no choice but to stay in Beijing.†   (source)
  • There are bus-vehicles that will take you back to Beijing.†   (source)
  • The leader of a cabal in Beijing would know.†   (source)
  • I felt a dramatic change of attitude within the Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • 'Who's suddenly been summoned to Beijing,' interrupted the man called Gamma.†   (source)
  • But for my ballet and Beijing Opera Movement classes I was scared to death.†   (source)
  • Delta picked up his knapsack and removed a gun he had taken in Beijing, showing it to the commando.†   (source)
  • He came back on the morning I was to leave for Beijing.†   (source)
  • Do not call your colleagues or your counterparts here in Beijing.†   (source)
  • I looked scary, comical—like an evil Beijing Opera character.†   (source)
  • Second, he spread out the map and circled a small green area on the outskirts of northwest Beijing.†   (source)
  • But to my surprise, the headmaster introduced them as Madame Mao's representatives from Beijing.†   (source)
  • The government in Beijing would pay a lot of money for it!†   (source)
  • There are many treasures in Beijing, and elsewhere, of course, but this is the heavenly city.†   (source)
  • When Beijing takes over, I am dead, my family is dead.†   (source)
  • I'm Li Cunxin from the Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • 'An aide to Soo came to Headquarters One and checked all tomorrow's flights from Kai Tak to Beijing.†   (source)
  • But this Beijing Airport was not what I had expected at all.†   (source)
  • Instead I told them about the train trip to Beijing and how exciting everything was.†   (source)
  • His holdings are so extensive he's been rewelcomed in Beijing as an investor and consultant.†   (source)
  • My family could never visit me in Beijing.†   (source)
  • The summons to Beijing had to be complied with and he is careless.†   (source)
  • They think Beijing found him and hired him.†   (source)
  • "I want to teach you a Beijing Opera Movement exercise," I began.†   (source)
  • His connections in Beijing made him an important contributor to intelligence.†   (source)
  • Please, only tell her the good things about Beijing.†   (source)
  • It's going to Shanghai and the people in Beijing said I was to be on it!†   (source)
  • Otherwise it was the strict routine of the Beijing Dance Academy, day after day after day.†   (source)
  • He told me a call was rerouted through Beijing with an unidentified Jade Tower priority code.†   (source)
  • The Beijing Dance Academy—ms' world for seven long years.†   (source)
  • Here I was, part of the Beijing Dance Academy, with Madame Mao our honorary artistic director.†   (source)
  • They will be taken to Beijing for strictly confidential, highest-level conferences.†   (source)
  • The chaos at Kai Tak Airport had demanded the elaborate trap in Beijing.†   (source)
  • I remembered the sorghum sweets I used to take to Beijing with me.†   (source)
  • I fell in and out of sleep throughout that trip back to Beijing.†   (source)
  • Apparently it was cleared on the highest authority in Beijing.†   (source)
  • I thought she looked more like a Beijing Opera singer, but she smelled so strong!†   (source)
  • The manager of the Beijing Hotel actually spoke to my superior, but, yes, I do recall.†   (source)
  • Beijing Opera required sharp, strong gestures.†   (source)
  • July 1977: our sixth year at the Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • It was strangely quiet compared to the hustle and bustle of Beijing Station.†   (source)
  • Beijing Opera movements are all about flexibility and suppleness.†   (source)
  • She tapped the last gentleman from Beijing on the shoulder and pointed at me.†   (source)
  • Sixteen years ago, thanks to Madame Mao, I was selected to join the Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • The school bus even took us on a shopping trip to Beijing to buy presents for our families.†   (source)
  • After dinner I took out the sweets that I had bought in Beijing, and everyone tasted a piece.†   (source)
  • I noticed too that these Westerners called Beijing "Peking" all the time—even that seemed odd.†   (source)
  • "Tell me, what is Beijing like?" he asked anxiously.†   (source)
  • I remembered my feelings toward Her Junfang in that dark room in the Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • They have come to Qingdao to collect us and will accompany us on our train trip to Beijing.†   (source)
  • Our first would be ballet, followed by Chinese folk dance and Beijing Opera Movement.†   (source)
  • The gentleman from Beijing glanced in my direction.†   (source)
  • Those first few weeks at the Beijing Dance Academy were an agony of loneliness.†   (source)
  • On the way to the Beijing train station, my heart raced faster than the wheels of the bus.†   (source)
  • So my brothers had to use some personal connections to get us the return tickets back to Beijing.†   (source)
  • Chong was married too, to a nice lady who worked at a clothing factory in Beijing.†   (source)
  • The airport in Beijing was the same one that I'd left from in 1979.†   (source)
  • Would there be as much change there as I had seen in Beijing?†   (source)
  • We went by bus to the Heaven's Gate Theater close to the center of Beijing.†   (source)
  • I danced that opening night of Swan Lake at the Beijing Exhibition Hall.†   (source)
  • Many people stopped me like that and asked me about Beijing and university life.†   (source)
  • One of the teachers from Beijing noticed it and referred me to a medical examiner.†   (source)
  • Just before we pull into Beijing Station, our teachers warn us that it will be very crowded.†   (source)
  • On my table, only one girl and one boy looked familiar: I'd seen them on our train trip to Beijing.†   (source)
  • I can't imagine how alone I will feel in Beijing.†   (source)
  • Fengtian's wife, Jiping, was a Chinese folk-dance teacher at the Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • The train trip back to Beijing this time was a happier experience.†   (source)
  • I was a couple of minutes late for Gao's Beijing Opera Movement class.†   (source)
  • Mary and I stayed in Beijing at first and spent every minute with my friends.†   (source)
  • I returned to start my fourth year at the Beijing Dance Academy later that February of 1975.†   (source)
  • That year we experienced one of the worst autumns in Beijing since our arrival in 1972.†   (source)
  • Zhang Weiqiang and I went to the Beijing Passport Bureau as soon as we possibly could.†   (source)
  • My grief for Cunyuan continued to overwhelm me all through my journey back to Beijing.†   (source)
  • Our second class that morning was Beijing Opera Movement.†   (source)
  • So Teacher Song led and we sang: I love Beijing Tiananmen, The sun rises above Tiananmen.†   (source)
  • So, on the back of the Bandit's and Fengtian's bikes, Mary and I traveled around Beijing.†   (source)
  • Shops in Beijing ran out of plastic covering for people to use as temporary shelters.†   (source)
  • It felt like my very first exam in my first year at the Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • I have made a fool of myself within the first few minutes of being in Beijing.†   (source)
  • He was still far from Beijing, and now he had no money to hire a horse.†   (source)
  • Almost all of the kids who couldn't swim came from Shanghai or Beijing.†   (source)
  • I wish I could put him and the rest of my family in my pocket and take them to Beijing with me.†   (source)
  • The Beijing Dance Academy would laugh their teeth off if they saw my bowed legs!†   (source)
  • But to see Beijing would be a great privilege.†   (source)
  • Several older buildings fell down in Beijing too.†   (source)
  • All my friends in Beijing had adored her, and I wanted my family to feel the same.†   (source)
  • Our visas were approved by the American consulate in Beijing in a matter of days.†   (source)
  • Who knows if you can stomach the luxurious life in Beijing.†   (source)
  • Cunxin, you must be thinking about your family constantly while you are in Beijing?†   (source)
  • I hope Beijing will grant you permission, but I can't guarantee that they will.†   (source)
  • I was happy to see my good friends at the Beijing Dance Academy again, especially the Bandit.†   (source)
  • It felt just like the first time I'd left for the Beijing Dance Academy sixteen years earlier.†   (source)
  • By the time we reached the Beijing Dance Academy it was around ten o'clock.†   (source)
  • Why didn't you buy something for yourself in Beijing?" my dia asked.†   (source)
  • If it wasn't for Beijing, nobody would have bothered.†   (source)
  • We were told in Beijing that they didn't sell domestic return tickets.†   (source)
  • "Ah, Beijing," the doctor said.†   (source)
  • It's good to be back in Beijing."†   (source)
  • Some of them had lived in nine or ten different states in as many years, and many of them had lived abroad: in Sydney, Caracas, Beijing, Dubai, Taipei.†   (source)
  • Sitting on the hard bench in the cafeteria, I pictured her thirty-hour trip to Beijing, the train crowded with enthusiastic Red Guards.†   (source)
  • She's a Japanese physicist of Chinese descent who currently works for a Japanese company here in Beijing.†   (source)
  • At a primary school in Beijing, Yunxiang Yan found that all of the children recognized an image of Ronald McDonald.†   (source)
  • I determined that I should go to Beijing so that I could establish revolutionary ties, not just with comrades from Beijing, but with comrades from all over China who would meet in Beijing.†   (source)
  • Battles like this one raged across Beijing like a multitude of CPUs working in parallel, their combined output, the Cultural Revolution.†   (source)
  • "Kids are the same regarding the issues that affect the all-important stages of their development," a top executive at the Gepetto Group told the audience at a recent KidPower conference, "and they apply to any kid in Berlin, Beijing, or Brooklyn."†   (source)
  • "I want to write to the leadership in Beijing and let them know about the irresponsible behavior of the Construction Corps," Bai said.†   (source)
  • Over a period of forty days, in Beijing alone, more than seventeen hundred victims of struggle sessions were beaten to death.†   (source)
  • The letter he wrote to the central leadership in Beijing was likely based on a real sense of responsibility.†   (source)
  • The 'resulting chaos finally caused the leadership in Beijing to ask students to return to class in late 1967 and continue the revolution in a more controlled manner.†   (source)
  • Through the window he could see Beijing in the distance: Under the spring sun, cars filled the streets like a dense river; on a lawn someone was walking a dog; a few children were playing….†   (source)
  • The other is very close by, a radio astronomy observatory located in the suburbs of Beijing, which is run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University's Joint Center for Astrophysics.†   (source)
  • In the distance, the red star atop the Beijing Exhibition Center's Russian-style spire reflected the light from the cars passing below, also twinkling randomly….†   (source)
  • He listened as Sha told of how she witnessed the death of her father during the Cultural Revolution, how she was falsely accused at the Production and Construction Corps, how she then seemed to disappear until her return to Beijing at the beginning of the nineties, when she began teaching astrophysics at Tsinghua, where her father had also taught, until her retirement.†   (source)
  • Millions had died in World War IV; whole cultures had been devastated, dozens of cities reduced to rubble—including the original Beijing.†   (source)
  • For half a step, New Beijing Palace could be glimpsed between complexes, sprawling and serene on the cliff that overlooked the city.†   (source)
  • Please welcome to the 126th Annual Ball of the Eastern Commonwealth, a personal guest of His Imperial Majesty: Linh Cinder of New Beijing.†   (source)
  • Twelve hours from now, she would be miles outside of the city, putting as much distance between herself and New Beijing as she could.†   (source)
  • And it seemed that lately a disproportionate number of those chosen were from New Beijing and the surrounding suburbs.†   (source)
  • Maybe this wasn't a fantasy vehicle, maybe it wasn't their key to salvation, but somehow, someday, she would leave New Beijing.†   (source)
  • "You see, I figured it's probably too much to hope that New Beijing's most renowned mechanic is having trouble with her port, so I figured there must be something wrong with mine."†   (source)
  • She was the diplomat who had been in New Beijing for weeks, whose picture had been all over the news feeds, though she'd never paid her much attention.†   (source)
  • Netscreens implanted into building walls showed live feeds of fire and smoke in downtown New Beijing and panicked headlines in which the toll of infected mounted by the second—even though only one person had been confirmed sick so far as Cinder could tell.†   (source)
  • From ground level, New Beijing was a mess—too many buildings crammed into too little space, the streets untended, power lines and clotheslines strung across every alley, intruding vines scurrying up every concrete wall.†   (source)
  • The thought of Queen Levana coming to New Beijing had twisted her stomach—the thought of dozens, maybe even hundreds of Lunars living on Earth and impersonating Earthens nearly had her running for the sink.†   (source)
  • Coming to New Beijing?†   (source)
  • RESIDENT OF NEW BEIJING.†   (source)
  • New Beijing.†   (source)
  • The cooler heads in Beijing are ignored in favour of more aggressive elements who want to save face through military control.†   (source)
  • You've got to get ready to leave for Beijing, you'll be busy with all kinds of stuff, and you won't have time to see me.†   (source)
  • When they reach the station, Mad takes a small red notebook from her pocket, writes down her Beijing address, tears the page out, and hands it to Takahashi.†   (source)
  • "Très bien!" had yelled the oldest French member of Medusa, who years later would save his life in a wildlife sanctuary in Beijing.†   (source)
  • His mind floated back to China, to Beijing and the wild bird sanctuary where he had trapped a killer posing as Jason Bourne.†   (source)
  • Beijing.†   (source)
  • Neither of Aline's parents was part of the Uprising—my uncle went to Beijing to get away from Valentine and met Aline's mother at the Institute there.†   (source)
  • Beijing.†   (source)
  • Like the economic ministers in Beijing, he doesn't just like money, he's obsessed with it-and everything that goes with it.†   (source)
  • Beijing.†   (source)
  • However, as he had done on the primitive outskirts of Beijing, he drove the car off the country road deep into a mass of tall grass and foliage.†   (source)
  • "So are your very secret substations in Beijing, Kabul and-forgive my impertinence-Canada's Prince Edward Island, but you don't advertise them," said Krupkin.†   (source)
  • Beijing.†   (source)
  • Beijing.†   (source)
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