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Lord worked as Assistant to the Director at the East-West Center in Hawaii, and as program officer at the Fulbright Program for professors in Washington, D.C. [1]. In 1962, as refugees surged into Hong Kong, Bette's mother, Dora Bao, conceived and carried out a plan to get her third daughter, nicknamed Sansan (Putonghua, Sānsān, "Threethree") [2] (Jean Bao) out of the People's Republic of China.
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson is a children's novel by Bette Bao Lord and illustrator Marc Simont about a young girl named Shirley Temple Wong who leaves a secure life within her clan in China following World War II.
Winston Lord (born August 14, 1937) is a retired American diplomat. As Special Assistant to the National Security Advisor and then as Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State, Lord was a close adviser to Henry Kissinger and was instrumental in bringing about the renormalization of U.S.-China relations in the 1970s.
Bette Bao Lord (包柏漪) – writer, novelist; Eileen Chang (张爱玲, a.k.a. 张煐) – writer; Kang-i Sun Chang (孫康宜) – writer and literary scholar; Lan Samantha Chang – writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop; Victoria Chang – poet, children's writer, and essayist; Ted Chiang (姜峯楠) – speculative fiction writer
Bette Bao Lord (B.A. 1959, M.A. 1960), author and civic activist; William MacDonald, prolific Christian author; Gregory Maguire (Ph.D. 1990), author of the novels Wicked and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Maliha Masood, author; Michael McDowell, author and screenwriter
Bao Weiming (包偉銘) Taiwan: 3rd and 6th chorus 江音傑: 3rd and 6th chorus Jonathan Lee (李宗盛) Taiwan: 3rd and 6th chorus 吳大衛: 3rd and 6th chorus 林禹勝: 3rd and 6th chorus Shi Hsiao-rong (施孝榮) Taiwan: 3rd and 6th chorus 岳雷: Singapore: 3rd and 6th chorus Hsu Nai-lin (徐乃麟) Taiwan: 3rd and 6th chorus 徐瑋 ...
The first voting members of the BBG, confirmed on August 11, 1995, were David W. Burke, Ted Kaufman, Tom C. Korologos, Bette Bao Lord, Alberto J. Mora, Cheryl Halpern, Marc Nathanson, and Carl Spielvogel. [9] On October 1, 1999, the BBG was established as an independent agency by the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998. [10]
Bette Midler (/ b ɛ t ˈ m ɪ d l ər / bet MID-lər; [1] [2] born December 1, 1945) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and author. [3] Throughout her five-decade career Midler has received numerous accolades, including four Golden Globe Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Kennedy Center Honor, in addition to nominations for two Academy ...