He's also an Honorary Professor at Nankai University and has observed China from within for many years. He watched as Mao Zedon's socialist period evolved into the less easy decade governed by Deng Ziaoping. He saw what happened when refrigerators, washing machines, televisions, cellular phones and more food began to appear, right alongside corruption, high inflation, and an unequal distribution of the new wealth. A three-part essay on the changes in China. Protests against Vietnam war heat up.
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In Egypt, Abu Simbel temples are saved. Truman Capote writes In Cold Blood. Harold Adams Innis described how Canada was shaped by its production of staple commodities for world markets, in his early writings on the fur trade, the cod fishery, and the pulp and paper industry. He later reflected on how techniques of communication determine perceptions of time and space. This led scholars like Marshall McLuhan to begin their explorations of the media.