Word: american
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conclusion reached long ago by many other joint-venture businessmen. Perhaps the most typical piece of underhanded dealing involves the corruption of customs agents by hotels. "The law says customs can take up to 10% of an imported shipment of perishable items to test for disease," says a Chinese American who co-owns a Sichuan province hotel. To beat the delay and spoilage that can result from complying with such rules, hotel owners regularly pay off customs officials with "free samples...
...endemic. It's bad in China, sure, but I still say the mainland people are like Chinese everywhere else in the world: turn 'em loose and they'll earn % trillions." A capitalist's faith expressed by a true capitalist. The speaker is Tommy Quan, 55, a millionaire Chinese American from Seattle known as the "orange king" of Guangdong's Taishan County...
Taishan bills itself accurately as the "home of the overseas Chinese." The county's 960,000 residents have about 1.2 million relatives living abroad, and much as American Jews send money to Israel in lieu of actually moving there, Taishan's "overseas compatriots" have sent millions home. Since 1982 foreign funds have built 500 new schools, 50 hospitals and an indoor soccer stadium...
...China, most of the people I encounter, including those aware of what happened in Tiananmen Square, express perfectly understandable human sentiments grounded in fatalism. "As the old proverb goes," says a middle-level government official in Guangdong who holds a master's in political science from an American college, 'Happiness and sorrow flow along the same river.' Do we deplore what the army did in Tiananmen? Of course. Do we wish the government were different, more democratic, more humane? Of course. But what would you have us do? Take to the streets? For what? We have had ten relatively good...
...describing a social contract, abhorrent to an American but understandable, even comforting, to many Chinese. In exchange for letting the rulers rule, the subjects will be permitted by the regime to continue the economic progress they have enjoyed for ten years...