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  • They had no say in what to plant: the central government in Beijing decided that.†   (source)
  • Clocks in Tibet are set to reflect the Beijing time zone, which is two hours and fifteen minutes ahead of the Nepal time zone e. g 6:00 A.M. in Nepal is 8:15 in Tibet.†   (source)
  • I'm leaving for Beijing.†   (source)
  • The anthropologist Yunxiang Yan has noted that in the eyes of Beijing consumers, McDonald's represents "Americana and the promise of modernization."†   (source)
  • Mrs. Penhallow—Jia—used to run the Beijing Institute.†   (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)
  • Or the footage of angels plucking a military helicopter out of the sky and tossing it into the Beijing crowd, blade-first.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He also organized rallies against the hard-liners in Beijing in the flag plaza of the UN.†   (source)
  • Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo.†   (source)
  • "Oh, your Chinese is the Beijing dialect, very elegant," LuLing said.†   (source)
  • Wikileaks publishing Pentagon plans for bombing Beijing?†   (source)
  • The car left the city and sped west along the Beijing-Shijiazhuang Highway.†   (source)
  • Zhang Weiqiang and I went to the Beijing Passport Bureau as soon as we possibly could.†   (source)
  • Jia Hong-yu continued: "It was so stirring to arrive in Beijing.†   (source)
  • COMM RECEIVED FROM NEW BEIJING DISTRICT 29, LETUMOSIS QUARANTINE.†   (source)
  • They say you're the best mechanic in New Beijing.†   (source)
  • After you asked me, I wrote Jiu Jiu in Beijing.†   (source)
  • Would there be as much change there as I had seen in Beijing?†   (source)
  • Like I was telling you, I want to write to the central leadership in Beijing.†   (source)
  • Welcome to New Beijing's mechanic suite.†   (source)
  • He came back on the morning I was to leave for Beijing.†   (source)
  • My brother did—you know, Jiu Jiu in Beijing.†   (source)
  • Why didn't you buy something for yourself in Beijing?" my dia asked.†   (source)
  • My global positioning system indicates that we are in the 76th Sector of New Beijing.†   (source)
  • Settling into the backseat, she told it to take her to New Beijing Palace.†   (source)
  • I remembered the sorghum sweets I used to take to Beijing with me.†   (source)
  • Beijing Opera movements are all about flexibility and suppleness.†   (source)
  • I need to speak with someone at New Beijing Palace right away.†   (source)
  • The year before your surgery, he unveiled an invention at the New Beijing science fair.†   (source)
  • The school bus even took us on a shopping trip to Beijing to buy presents for our families.†   (source)
  • He told me Queen Levana is coming to New Beijing.†   (source)
  • Fengtian's wife, Jiping, was a Chinese folk-dance teacher at the Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • I danced that opening night of Swan Lake at the Beijing Exhibition Hall.†   (source)
  • Lunars in New Beijing—he'd never heard anything so absurd.†   (source)
  • COMM RECEIVED FROM NEW BEIJING DISTRICT 29, LETUMOSIS QUARANTINE.†   (source)
  • Here I was, part of the Beijing Dance Academy, with Madame Mao our honorary artistic director.†   (source)
  • She would be taking no more customers in New Beijing.†   (source)
  • It felt just like the first time I'd left for the Beijing Dance Academy sixteen years earlier.†   (source)
  • But this Beijing Airport was not what I had expected at all.†   (source)
  • We were told in Beijing that they didn't sell domestic return tickets.†   (source)
  • If it wasn't for Beijing, nobody would have bothered.†   (source)
  • Those first few weeks at the Beijing Dance Academy were an agony of loneliness.†   (source)
  • I was a couple of minutes late for Gao's Beijing Opera Movement class.†   (source)
  • The Beijing Dance Academy would laugh their teeth off if they saw my bowed legs!†   (source)
  • Several older buildings fell down in Beijing too.†   (source)
  • Just before we pull into Beijing Station, our teachers warn us that it will be very crowded.†   (source)
  • Our second class that morning was Beijing Opera Movement.†   (source)
  • The trip to Beijing, the whole of the last twenty-four hours, all seemed like a dream.†   (source)
  • Did we do the right thing, letting you go to Beijing at such a young age?†   (source)
  • Instead I told them about the train trip to Beijing and how exciting everything was.†   (source)
  • Our visas were approved by the American consulate in Beijing in a matter of days.†   (source)
  • The gentleman from Beijing glanced in my direction.†   (source)
  • He was still far from Beijing, and now he had no money to hire a horse.†   (source)
  • I noticed too that these Westerners called Beijing "Peking" all the time—even that seemed odd.†   (source)
  • I thought she looked more like a Beijing Opera singer, but she smelled so strong!†   (source)
  • "Tell me, what is Beijing like?" he asked anxiously.†   (source)
  • We went by bus to the Heaven's Gate Theater close to the center of Beijing.†   (source)
  • Our first would be ballet, followed by Chinese folk dance and Beijing Opera Movement.†   (source)
  • All my friends in Beijing had adored her, and I wanted my family to feel the same.†   (source)
  • But to see Beijing would be a great privilege.†   (source)
  • Almost all of the kids who couldn't swim came from Shanghai or Beijing.†   (source)
  • On my table, only one girl and one boy looked familiar: I'd seen them on our train trip to Beijing.†   (source)
  • I felt a dramatic change of attitude within the Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • The Beijing Dance Academy—ms' world for seven long years.†   (source)
  • On the way to the Beijing train station, my heart raced faster than the wheels of the bus.†   (source)
  • It felt like my very first exam in my first year at the Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • Beijing Opera required sharp, strong gestures.†   (source)
  • They have come to Qingdao to collect us and will accompany us on our train trip to Beijing.†   (source)
  • July 1977: our sixth year at the Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • I have made a fool of myself within the first few minutes of being in Beijing.†   (source)
  • I returned to start my fourth year at the Beijing Dance Academy later that February of 1975.†   (source)
  • So my brothers had to use some personal connections to get us the return tickets back to Beijing.†   (source)
  • "I want to teach you a Beijing Opera Movement exercise," I began.†   (source)
  • I'm Li Cunxin from the Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • My grief for Cunyuan continued to overwhelm me all through my journey back to Beijing.†   (source)
  • I knew I had no choice but to stay in Beijing.†   (source)
  • I can't imagine how alone I will feel in Beijing.†   (source)
  • Your lucky son has been chosen for Madame Mao's Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • By the time we reached the Beijing Dance Academy it was around ten o'clock.†   (source)
  • But for my ballet and Beijing Opera Movement classes I was scared to death.†   (source)
  • Cunxin, you must be thinking about your family constantly while you are in Beijing?†   (source)
  • Chong was married too, to a nice lady who worked at a clothing factory in Beijing.†   (source)
  • That year we experienced one of the worst autumns in Beijing since our arrival in 1972.†   (source)
  • Shops in Beijing ran out of plastic covering for people to use as temporary shelters.†   (source)
  • I looked scary, comical—like an evil Beijing Opera character.†   (source)
  • I wish I could put him and the rest of my family in my pocket and take them to Beijing with me.†   (source)
  • One of the teachers from Beijing noticed it and referred me to a medical examiner.†   (source)
  • She tapped the last gentleman from Beijing on the shoulder and pointed at me.†   (source)
  • The train trip back to Beijing this time was a happier experience.†   (source)
  • Otherwise it was the strict routine of the Beijing Dance Academy, day after day after day.†   (source)
  • I was happy to see my good friends at the Beijing Dance Academy again, especially the Bandit.†   (source)
  • Who knows if you can stomach the luxurious life in Beijing.†   (source)
  • I remembered my feelings toward Her Junfang in that dark room in the Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • Sixteen years ago, thanks to Madame Mao, I was selected to join the Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • I fell in and out of sleep throughout that trip back to Beijing.†   (source)
  • It was strangely quiet compared to the hustle and bustle of Beijing Station.†   (source)
  • Mary and I stayed in Beijing at first and spent every minute with my friends.†   (source)
  • My family could never visit me in Beijing.†   (source)
  • Please, only tell her the good things about Beijing.†   (source)
  • After dinner I took out the sweets that I had bought in Beijing, and everyone tasted a piece.†   (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)
  • Many people stopped me like that and asked me about Beijing and university life.†   (source)
  • Beijing and other big cities would display magical lights and set off many fireworks.†   (source)
  • The government in Beijing would pay a lot of money for it!†   (source)
  • The airport in Beijing was the same one that I'd left from in 1979.†   (source)
  • For our entrance the Bandit and I walked on with furiously fast heel-toe Beijing Opera walks.†   (source)
  • But to my surprise, the headmaster introduced them as Madame Mao's representatives from Beijing.†   (source)
  • I hope Beijing will grant you permission, but I can't guarantee that they will.†   (source)
  • Flights of fancy out of Beijing, Hong Kong-some concerning a man named Jason Bourne.†   (source)
  • "RESIST AMERICA BEGINNING with Cola," said a banner at Beijing University in May of 1999.†   (source)
  • Aline's parents ran the Institute in Beijing for years.†   (source)
  • The chaos at Kai Tak Airport had demanded the elaborate trap in Beijing.†   (source)
  • The summons to Beijing had to be complied with and he is careless.†   (source)
  • Simply eating at a McDonald's in Beijing seems to elevate a person's social status.†   (source)
  • My mother was younger than Patrick—he sent her to Paris when he went to Beijing.†   (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)
  • It's going to Shanghai and the people in Beijing said I was to be on it!†   (source)
  • 'An aide to Soo came to Headquarters One and checked all tomorrow's flights from Kai Tak to Beijing.†   (source)
  • Apparently it was cleared on the highest authority in Beijing.†   (source)
  • There are bus-vehicles that will take you back to Beijing.†   (source)
  • 'Who's suddenly been summoned to Beijing,' interrupted the man called Gamma.†   (source)
  • The leader of a cabal in Beijing would know.†   (source)
  • The manager of the Beijing Hotel actually spoke to my superior, but, yes, I do recall.†   (source)
  • They will be taken to Beijing for strictly confidential, highest-level conferences.†   (source)
  • His client here in Beijing will alert the hotel operators.†   (source)
  • Delta picked up his knapsack and removed a gun he had taken in Beijing, showing it to the commando.†   (source)
  • They think Beijing found him and hired him.†   (source)
  • There are many treasures in Beijing, and elsewhere, of course, but this is the heavenly city.†   (source)
  • The initial charge was trafficking in drugs, their network the Shanghai-Beijing axis.†   (source)
  • Is she the Occidental's contact here in Beijing?†   (source)
  • His connections in Beijing made him an important contributor to intelligence.†   (source)
  • Second, he spread out the map and circled a small green area on the outskirts of northwest Beijing.†   (source)
  • He told me a call was rerouted through Beijing with an unidentified Jade Tower priority code.†   (source)
  • The reports from Beijing are incredible!†   (source)
  • When Beijing takes over, I am dead, my family is dead.†   (source)
  • I want to get out of Beijing alive, and every second with you diminishes my prospects.†   (source)
  • Do not call your colleagues or your counterparts here in Beijing.†   (source)
  • His holdings are so extensive he's been rewelcomed in Beijing as an investor and consultant.†   (source)
  • Gallimard and Marc stumble down the Beijing streets†   (source)
  • It is a summer night on the Beijing streets.†   (source)
  • Chinese opera house and the streets of Beijing.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Over a period of forty days, in Beijing alone, more than seventeen hundred victims of struggle sessions were beaten to death.†   (source)
  • Battles like this one raged across Beijing like a multitude of CPUs working in parallel, their combined output, the Cultural Revolution.†   (source)
  • The letter he wrote to the central leadership in Beijing was likely based on a real sense of responsibility.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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.... Which is more real?†   (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.... Wang tried to interpret the flickers as Morse code.†   (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)
  • Maybe this wasn't a fantasy vehicle, maybe it wasn't their key to salvation, but somehow, someday, she would leave New 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)
  • And it seemed that lately a disproportionate number of those chosen were from New Beijing and the surrounding suburbs.†   (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)
  • Millions had died in World War IV; whole cultures had been devastated, dozens of cities reduced to rubble—including the original 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)
  • RESIDENT OF NEW BEIJING.†   (source)
  • Coming to New Beijing?†   (source)
  • New Beijing.†   (source)
  • At first, despite missing home, the thrill of being in Beijing near our great and beloved leader Chairman Mao completely overwhelmed me.†   (source)
  • Within the first month of our arrival in Beijing, we heard that the president of America, Richard Nixon, was to pay a historic visit to China.†   (source)
  • That night atthe Beijing Dance Academy, the Bandit, Liu Fengtian, Chong Xiongjun and some of my classmates organized a farewell party.†   (source)
  • Soon after Zhou Enlai's death, there was a massive earthquake in the coal-mining city of Tangshan, about a hundred miles east of Beijing.†   (source)
  • To qualify as a student of the Beijing Dance Academy, one had to be able to do this quickly and efficiently.†   (source)
  • My first lonely, day in Beijing, posing for one of our group photos in Tiananmen Square—I am in the front row, fourth from the right.†   (source)
  • She endlessly bombarded me with questions about my childhood, my family, about China and especially about my life at the Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • I thought about the Beijing Opera films I'd seen back in our commune, and I dreamed constantly about being a singer.†   (source)
  • I saw myself as a Red Guard, and I saw myself once again as Mao's last dancer endlessly practicing in a dim and dusty dance studio in Beijing.†   (source)
  • Everything surprised and impressed me—the gigantic buildings, the number of cars, the cleanliness compared to Beijing.†   (source)
  • I tried to remember the pain of my torn hamstrings during my Beijing Opera Movement classes back in China.†   (source)
  • Before leaving Beijing I wanted to host a party at my hotel restaurant for all of my old teachers and classmates.†   (source)
  • All of my brothers, sisters-in-law and relatives, over thirty of them, took the long train trip from Qingdao to Beijing to see me dance.†   (source)
  • I'm Li Cunxin from the Beijing Dance Academy, and I've just returned from America representing China.†   (source)
  • I knew they were expecting to hear about glorious, heartwarming experiences, so I found myself telling everyone only the best aspects of Beijing.†   (source)
  • But Russia had always had a certain allure ever since I'd watched so many brilliant Russian dancers in those videos back at the Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
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