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                         Thursday, November 12, 1992

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1. News Brief (2 Items) ................................................. 10
2. Dai Qing: China's Most-Favored-Nation Trade Status Necessary ......... 60
3. Conference News (2 Items) ............................................ 63
4. Fortune Cookies to Be Marketed in China .............................. 54
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1. News Brief (2 Items) ................................................. 10
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The Association of Chinese Scientists and Professionals of Canada (ACSP) is
planning to organize several lecture-tour delegations to China in the summer
of 1993. The purpose is to promote the communication between professionals
and scholars in Canada and China for the development of science and technology.
Contact Gao Lijun at <053961@acadvm1.uottawa.ca> for the details.
(From:  Gao Lijun <china-can-request@ccu.umanitoba.ca>)

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Wang Ruowang finished his visit in Canada on Saturday, November 7th.
His visit was hosted by FCSSC and MinLian MinZhen Toronto brunch. Mr.
Wang Ruowang gave speeches in Ottawa, Montreal, Hamilton and Toronto.
(From: Yan Zhuang, yzhuang@sgi2.mathstat.uoguelph.ca)

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2. Dai Qing: China's Most-Favored-Nation Trade Status Necessary ......... 60
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By: George Zhu
Source: CND, 11/3/92

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Dai Qing, a leading Chinese journalist and writer, said
in an interview on Oct. 28 that the United States should continue its
most-favored-nation trade status to China "for the sake of ordinary Chinese
people to change their social status."

Dai, now visiting Harvard University under a fellowship from Nieman
Foundation, was detained by police in Beijing for as long as ten months
following the June 4 massacre in 1989.  She was then expelled from the
communist party because of her role in the democracy movement.

In last ten years, Dai said, while the U.S. has been extending China's
preferable tariff status, the foreign enterprises, joint enterprises
and private enterprises in China have been flourishing, and the central
planning economy is being weakened.

As a result, China's economic structure has been changed significantly,
millions of unemployed people have been able to find a job in companies
over which the communist government has less direct control, according to
Dai.

"The impact of the most-favored-nation status on China is that it has in
fact helped to solve a most urgent and most populous human rights problem
there," said Dai.

Dai thanked the international community for its concern and support during
her detention in Beijing two years ago.  After Secretary of State
James Baker personally raised her case to the Chinese leaders during his
visit late last year, the government finally allowed Dai to leave China
for the United States.

However, Dai said she disagrees with the U.S. Congress in imposing various
conditions on China in order to renew its most-favored-nation trade status.

"Undoubtedly I was one of the beneficiaries as a result of the international
pressure in pushing China to improve its human rights record," Dai said.
"Nevertheless, the worst human rights violation committed by the communist
regime is to set a permanent status for each individual based on ideology."

Dai said, in China, "if you are put on the bottom of the society, you have
no status right, no education right, no marriage right and no relocation
right, you don't even have the most fundamental human rights."

"I was once asked: If for the millions of people to have their rights to
live and change their status, still put you in jail. Do you accept that?"
Dai said. "I replied: Yes, I accept it."

Because, Dai explained, while her imprisonment was certainly in part due to
the fact that "the Chinese law has many flaws and the government often
fails to implement it", it was also the result of her own activities.

"Since I did what I did, I should bear its consequences," Dai emphasized.

A renowned reporter for the official Guangming Daily, Dai was recently
awarded the Golden Pen for Freedom by the International Newspaper Publisher
Association for her excellence in advocating freedom of expression and
human dignity in China.

Dai's late foster-father was Jianying Ye, one of the founders of the
People's Republic of China and one of the 10 marshals commissioned by
Chairman Mao in 1950's.


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4. Conference News (2 Items) ............................................ 63
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The 3rd International Conference for Young Computer Scientists will be held
in Beijing, China, July 15-17, 1993.  The conference is devoted mainly to
the computer professionals under 40 worldwide to provide an opportunity for
them to communicate research achievements. The conference is held every two
years. The 2nd conference was held at the Fragrant Hill Hotel in Beijing in
July 18 - 20, 1991. It was attended by 200 delegates form 12 countries. The
proceedings of the conference, published by International Academic
Publishers, is about 800 pages.  The focus of the ICYCS'93 is "Towards
Future of Computer Science and Applications". Topics of interests include
the following areas:

Architectures
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Neural Networks
CAD & CAE & CAI & CAM & computer Graphics
Computer vision & Robotics
Database
Foundation of Computer Science
Networks & Distributed Processing
Pattern Recognition & Image Processing
Software Engineering & Tools, Applications

For more information, please contact Prof Charles X. Ling, Department of
Computer Science at University of Western Ontario, at the address
<ling@csd.uwo.ca>. The deadline of submission is Nov. 15, 1992.
(From: Charles X. Ling <ling@csd.uwo.ca>)
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The International Astronomical Union Colloquium No. 145 on Supernovae and
Supernova Remnants will be held in Xian, China, May 24 - 29, 1993. Topics of
the meeting will include

Observations and classification of supernovae
Supernova rates in galaxies
Supernovae and the cosmic distance scale
Evolution of supernova progenitors
Supernova nucleosynthesis
Core collapse, neutrino emission, and formation of compact
     objects.
Explosion dynamics
X-rays and gamma rays from supernovae
Observations and interpretation of SN1987A
Spectrum formation in supernovae
Interaction of supernovae with circumstellar matter
Radio and X-ray emission from supernovae
Radio, infrared, optical, UV, and X-ray observations from
     supernova remnants and their interpretation
Supernova remnants and compact objects
Historical supernovae

The Colloquium will last six days, in order to allow time for topical
workshops and excursions.  Each day there will be approximately five invited
summary talks of typically 45 minutes each, with 15 minutes for discussion.
There will be no parallel sessions.  Contributed (posters only) papers are
welcome, and people will have ample opportunities to discuss their work in
informal working groups.

For more information, please contact Richard McCray, JILA, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440, USA or at the e_mail address
<dick@jila.colorado.edu> (From: <FENG@DUVM.bitnet>)
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4. Fortune Cookies to Be Marketed in China .............................. 54
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Forwarded by: Charles Mok
Source: The New York Times via San Jose Mercury News, 11/09/92

Thanks to the Brooklyn-based Wonton Food Co., China will soon have fortune
cookies.

Until now the cookies, which cap off just about every meal in most of
America's 30,000 Chinese restaurants, have been unknown and have gone
untasted in China.  Like hot dogs, pizza and, more particularly, chop suey,
they are essentially American concoctions.

But Wonton Foods, which produces a million fortune cookies a day in New
York, has decided to go east with the fortune cookie.  "We just signed a
joint-venture agreement with the Guangzhou Municipal Foodstuffs Machinery
Corp. to build and operate a fortune cookie plant," said Donald H. Lau, the
company's vice president.  He said he expected production to begin in about
eight months.

Lau said he did not believe the fortunes needed to be approved by government
or party censors.  "Those days are over," he said.  Still, he noted, in
terms of style, the Chinese fortunes are more elliptical than the American
variety, which essentially foretell in a straight forward manner good
health, growing wisdom, increasing riches, much love and ever greater
sexiness.

He offered a few of the Chinese fortunes picked at random: "True gold fear
no fire," "Heaven never seals all exits," "The only way to catch a tiger cub
is to go into the tiger's den," and "Constant grinding can turn an iron rod
into a needle."

Asked whether turning rods into needles was good or bad, he replied, "I
don't know."

In anticipation of starting up in Guangzhou, Wonton's partners in the
booming Chinese city have sent many hundreds of fortunes to Lau to be
translated into English.  The idea is to have each cookie contain a fortune
printed on one side in Chinese and the other in English, because the first
customers are expected to be hotels and restaurants in China and Hong Kong
that cater to foreigners and overseas Chinese.

While it is generally accepted that the first cookie was made in this
century by Chinese immigrants to the United States, some writers have
contended that the development here echoed an ancient event in Chinese
history.  It occurred in the 12th century, when, during a revolt against the
Mongols, rebel monks passed conspiratorial plans in moon cakes.  Moon cakes,
however, look more like cinnamon buns than fortune cookies.

A more specific account, altogether ignoring any notion of a culinary
subconscious, credits George Jung with inventing the fortune cookie at the
Hong Kong Noodle Co., which he founded in Los Angeles in 1916.  According to
"Madam Chu's Chinese Cooking School," a book by Grace Zia Chu, Jung came up
with the cookie either to cheer up customers depressed by World War I or to
keep them amused while they waited for their orders.

Three years ago, an entrepreneur in Hong Kong began importing fortune
cookies and selling them as luxury items in a chain of fancy delicatessens.
They were advertised as "Genuine American Fortune Cookies."

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