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...today. Foreign automakers will have permission to distribute, sell and service their vehicles and to offer loans to customers. And the government has pledged to address the issue of regional protectionism, which renders a VW produced in Shanghai, say, twice as expensive in the remote province of Gansu, thanks to a slew of local fees and taxes...
...When Xiaohong, a 1.52-m law student from Gansu province, decided to submit to the knife, she knew securing a reputable surgeon like Xia would mean fees more than double her entire college tuition. Her father, the only family member who knows about the $12,000 surgery, agreed that it would be an investment in Xiaohong's future. "First impressions are what matters," says Xiaohong, perched on her hospital cot. "People in China will always pick the taller woman, even if the shorter person is more talented." When Xiaohong finishes the six-month exercise and rehab program in Beijing...
Throughout the journey, I was struck by the contrast between the beauty of the landscape and the ugliness of the people. I saw the hatred of the Han Chinese toward the Muslim minorities in western Gansu province. I saw a man being castrated and his house ransacked by a village family-planning brigade, because his wife had just given birth to a second child. Years of political oppression had left the Chinese people hostile and suspicious of outsiders. When I passed through remote villages, peasants would take me for a spy or a hooligan and report me to the police...
...part, Zhu has no worries about her own sexuality. Her husband told her he had no interest in her three years after they got married. That was back in 1974, when they were young Red Guards tilling the unforgiving earth in remote Gansu province. "We got married for convenience," says Zhu. "Now I get to live my life for myself." She sips her bordeaux and crooks a finger at a well-muscled specimen circling the bar. As he starts approaching, she takes a last puff of her cigar and grins: "It's wonderful being a modern Chinese woman...
...Communist propaganda vilifies exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama as a "splittist" seeking to restore feudalism. Such images die hard. Yang Bo, a 30-year-old Chinese tourist who absorbed many propaganda films on Tibet, recoiled while visiting one of Tibetan Buddhism's holiest places, the Labrang Monastery in Gansu province: "It was dark, and the spinning prayer wheels sounded savage...