Word: guangzhou
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem for Li, Yang, Qiao or anyone else trying to rule China in the post-Tiananmen era is not more street protests. In the few days after the massacre, demonstrations and strikes did erupt in several key cities -- from Shenyang in Manchuria to central Wuhan to southern Guangzhou. Students and workers set up barricades in Shanghai, China's largest city and economic hub, and paralyzed the public transportation system. But the activism soon petered out. Protest rallies shrank from the ten thousands to the tens. On Shanghai campuses, student associations dissolved. With the crackdown officially under way, the vast majority...
...Nothing is more flexibly resilient than Chineseness," says Morris. Similar adaptability can be attributed to the first European and American merchants who were allowed to open factories and warehouses on the Guangzhou coast 150 years ago. The British eventually achieved dominance by dealing drugs, importing opium from India and selling it to mainland China. A pragmatic lot, the rulers of the Celestial Empire seem to have understood that the opiate of the people was opium...
...visiting a foreign country. In contrast to much of China, Guangdong exudes abundance: successful farmers living in multistory houses, townships producing consumer goods ranging from shoes to toys to microwave ovens, thousands of privately owned businesses blossoming. Set in the humid delta of the Pearl River, Guangdong's capital, Guangzhou, better known in the West as Canton, seethes with enterprise. The Dongping Street free market is filled with stalls selling all sorts of food: fish swimming in tubs of fresh water, poultry, a greengrocer's delight of vegetables and fruits. Most important is a bountiful selection of grades and cuts...
Guangdong, burdened with fewer state-run plants than other regions to begin with, has proved especially congenial to the entrepreneurial spirit. In Beijiao, about 15 miles south of Guangzhou, Ou Jiangquan, 49, general manager of the Yu Hua Industrial Co., has seen his firm expand from a bottle-cap producer to a manufacturer of electric fans and microwave ovens for export. "It's not easy for state-run enterprises to compete against us," says Ou. "They have to carry out reforms, or they will have...
...Iacocca, selected writings of Sigmund Freud, Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue and lavishly illustrated handbooks on how to apply eye makeup. Former students of English gather at twilight by the banks of Chengdu's Jinjiang river to practice their fractured grammar. The flashing sign above the dance floor at Guangzhou's luxury Baiyun Hotel actually reads WELCOME TO JOIN THE PARTY. No one interprets "party" as meaning the Communist variety...