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...Things aren't bad for Zhang Jin, either. She's a concubine, one of thousands of women from all over China who flock to Shenzhen to become second wives to Hong Kong businessmen. She got herself a sugar daddy who is rich?and tantalizingly old. When he dies, Zhang, 20, stands to inherit half his wealth (the rest will go to the legal wife across the border). But during the long stretches when he's away, Zhang is bored, staying at home playing mah-jongg with other second wives and banking the $2,000 a month he gives...
...mainlanders can only gaze at. The one-way traffic has become a nonstop flood: up to 200,000 people a day, 100 million crossings a year, numbers likely to triple by 2010. (Currently the border is open 16 hours a day; some want it to be 24/7.) Hong Kong businessmen have poured $15 billion into 70,000 firms in the border province of Guangdong, much of it for the manufacturing that once drove the Hong Kong economy. Office workers are escaping Hong Kong's ludicrous rents by moving to Shenzhen and accepting a 45-minute commute across the border...
...city is filled-to-bursting with goods and services for women. That's because there are four women to every man. Some have come to be close to Hong Kong businessmen wanting a conveniently located partner. Others have followed the money to the nightclubs, bars and brothels that have popped up all over town. In 20 years, they have produced an estimated 520,000 bastard children, thousands of whom are fighting for Hong Kong residency. Last year, the All China Women's Federation described the rise in the number of second wives as "a time bomb...
They could, and they did, envisioning a new device, a cheap, mobile, mass-produced computer that even illiterate farmers and poorly educated small businessmen could use. But it would have to be scalable and Internet-ready and therefore suitable for banks, local governments, schools and relief agencies...
...with Marlon Brando as a G.I. who loves a Japanese entertainer) and The Teahouse of the August Moon (this time with Brando as a Japanese!) - were mostly fond and sentimental. It was not until the country emerged as an economic Godzilla that Hollywood updated the old ogres with ruthless businessmen, in the film of Michael Crichton's novel Rising Sun - and then changed the identity from Japanese to American, to stifle Japanese protests. This summer's big item is Pearl Harbor, and we'll bet the "enemy" is portrayed gingerly. Unlike World War II films, this epic hopes to recoup...