Word: fenghuang
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Chinese capitalism was born in the rural farmlands when Deng permitted the provinces to dismantle their communes and collective farms. Peasants raced to divide up plots of land for private tilling, harvesting record crops and selling them in private markets. In no time, residents of tiny villages like Fenghuang in central Sichuan province had wrought a green revolution. By 1984 the village was producing more than $1 million worth of rice and a range of side products, including a famous brand of rice wine. The once impoverished residents were now earning close to $200 a year, enough to begin replacing...
...first glance, Fenghuang is still a backward village. Peasants pull two- wheeled harnessed carts along the roads, and sewage remains the primary fertilizer. Beneath that superficial impression, however, the lives of the 865 people of Fenghuang and of their neighbors in Sichuan province have been revolutionized. Where just six years ago most of the villagers were rice growers, today nearly 80% of Fenghuang's work force is no longer engaged in farming. Some peasants mix fodder, some produce soft drinks, some refine edible oil. Many of them work in a small distillery, brewing a potent rice liquor called feifeng daqu...
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