Word: fujian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beijing, Aquino held discussions with Deng Xiaoping and General Secretary Zhao Ziyang. She also visited the southern village of Fujian, from which her great-great-grandfather emigrated 182 years ago. Aquino met some 50 relatives and paid homage to her forebears in the family's ancestral temple...
Cory's natural air of authority and her sense of noblesse oblige were, in a way, her birthright as a child, the sixth of eight, of Jose and Demetria Cojuangco. After coming to the Philippines from Fujian province in China just three generations earlier, the Cojuangcos had quickly parlayed a small rice mill and a sugar mill into the richest empire in Tarlac province...
...blares from tape recorders. Local Party Secretary Qiu Huaisheng proudly points out that "of the 200 households, 126 have bought TV sets and 112 own cassette recorders." Sometimes, however, the peasants' purchases, as well as their entrepreneurial skills, are both illicit and posilively profligate. A group of peasants in Fujian province pooled its resources to buy a dozen video recorders and a stash of blue-movie tapes. They then charged $5 admission for every showing...
...leading hairdressing salon announced that it would no longer give men permanents. Many of the first casualties were similarly obscure: a Peking shopworker who procured two illustrated sex manuals from a Hong Kong businessman and reproduced 7,000 lucrative photos of their choicest scenes; an enterprising commune in Fujian province that used its pooled resources to acquire twelve video recorders and 16 pornographic tapes, then charged viewers $5 admission (about four days' wages for the average urban worker...
China's newspapers are proclaiming that the system is successful throughout the country. In coastal Fujian province, peasants have been using their money to buy their own machinery, such as threshers, small tractors and even motorboats for commercial fishing, something they would have had little incentive to do when the stress was on collective sharing. In northeastern China's Liaoning province, the new individual responsibility system has reduced the power of autocratic local leaders so that now, reports the People's Daily, there is "less scolding and beating of commune members, less giving of blind directions...