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...more frequently the recovery efforts end up like the search for Shu Zehong, a female worker at the Dongfang Turbine Works in the mountainside town of Hanwang. The mining and manufacturing center, which sits beneath mountains covered in pine and bamboo, was ravaged by the quake. At a public square an outdoor clock is frozen at 2:28 p.m., the minute the tremor struck. Nearby a 20-foot tall statue of a rider on a horse was decapitated during the quake, and the rider's head now sits upturned at its base. Many buildings on its main street were toppled...
...author doesn't tip his own hand, alas. Rogers doesn't reveal his personal holdings but gives the would-be investor dozens of possibilities, which range from the more predictable (Dongfang Electrical Machinery Co., a generator company) to the more exotic (Zhejiang GuYueLongShan Shaoxing Wine Co., a maker of traditional rice wine). Studying, says Rogers, will pay off: "If you do your homework, buy cheap and remain patient, you should be able to walk over and pick up that pile of cash in the corner that nobody else notices...
...shafts are blocked by government inspectors, those still in operation receive less ventilation, increasing the chances of a gas explosion. Despite Beijing's highly publicized campaign, 3,200 miners have died so far this year?more than during the same period last year. "Nothing has really changed," says Han Dongfang, a self-exiled activist who monitors Chinese labor problems from Hong Kong. "Some mines have been closed, but more are always starting up. The deadly cycle hasn't stopped...
...past, says Bachman, "the agents of coercion seem to be doing their job." But how long can they keep the pot from boiling over? "In a society where there are mechanisms for reconciliation," says Han Dongfang, "there can be a balance of various interests. But in China that mechanism doesn't exist. And the state is confused about its role." The result is a building of tensions. "The government has a choice," says Robin Munro, the Hong Kong director of Human Rights Watch/Asia. "It can try to keep the lid on by arresting more dissidents and wait...
...CANTON every year, when the flies disappear from the halls of the Dongfang Hotel and the humidity begins to subside, the People's Republic of China opens her doors to foreign businessmen for the annual trade fair. In the city's great exposition hall, German, Japanese, British and American dealers come to push their wares, examine Chinese products and take advantage of a little bit of foreign hospitality...