Word: fujian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Outside the mainstream religions--and outside the supervision of the government--are hundreds of independent Chinese religions that gird China like a rural electric network, illuminating lives house by house. In Fujian province each spring, tens of thousands of the faithful parade from town to town in religious "long marches" celebrating localized Taoist gods. Tai Shan, a holy mountain south of Beijing, is one of the country's most popular tourist sites--especially among would-be grandmothers, who trudge to the top, drape red strings over trees and then return home to wait for the grandson this ritual is supposed...
...year-old taxi driver, dressed in a trendy T shirt and jeans, is an ardent follower of Mazu, the sea goddess of peace. As a child, she was brought by her parents to a temple dedicated to the deity on Meizhou Island, off the coast of China's Fujian province. There, despite living in an officially atheistic nation, she was taught to worship. The goddess, says Mei, "is very receptive and answers all my prayers...
Most of the illegals have forked over as much as $48,000 each to gangsters in order to get to America. They are part of a wave from China's coastal Fujian province; no one knows what their real numbers are. Every now and then a boat stuffed with human cargo will wash up on a beachfront community. But many other landings go undetected. Police estimate there are 300 gang-run safe houses where illegals live as they prepare to enter the workplace. New York City's Fujian association estimates there are 500,000 illegals from the province...
...Tiananmen Square. On June 4, 1998, a lone protester sat in a wheelchair near the Monument to the People's Heroes at the heart of the same Square, handing out leaflets. He wasn't even protesting the massacre; his leaflets demanded compensation for a crippling shooting in the southeastern Fujian province. Like his predecessor, he was dragged away, kicking and screaming, by the authorities. Unlike his predecessor, he lived to protest another...
...champagne to celebrate its reunification with China next Monday, nearby Taiwan has been carrying out massive live-ammunition drills this week to make clear that it has no intention of allowing China to swallow it next. In response to Taiwan's saber-rattling, Beijing is threatening military drills in Fujian, the Chinese province nearest Taiwan, and maintains that Taiwan should view the Hong Kong handover as a blueprint for its own future. The rising tensions between Beijing and Taiwan have created a diplomatic difficulty for Hong Kong, which is stumped on where to seat the Taiwan delegation attending the handover...