| 1 | So opens an early scene from The Prosperous Time: China 2013, a hotly controversial Chinese science-fiction novel. | |
| 2 | For the post-war generation in the industrialised countries this was the best of times in the best of worlds. | |
| 3 | We are lucky to have returned to the motherland under "One Country, Two Systems" at the time of her rise to power. | |
| 4 | These historical epochs were interrupted by very sudden, short-lived episodes of instability, when old species went extinct and new ones took root. | |
| 5 | This company was taken over in 1993 by Primerica and is world renowned for being the first- automobile policy, space travel policy as well as commercial airline policy. |