Word: guangzhou
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chen has two sons and two daughters; his elder son and a daughter work in the provincial capital, Chengdu. His other son has gone south to the booming city of Guangzhou, where he works as a welder while his wife does shift work at a shoe factory. They send back $75 a month to the family. "Just about every family in this village has someone in Guangzhou. They say life is all right there. They have fish and meat to eat every day. Of course it is better to be in the village where you come from, but there...
...brands, stock-trading houses, U.S. fast-food chains--and "Balls," a newly opened NBA theme bar run by a former car salesman from Taiwan. Not so slick as Shanghai, Wuhan still has its pretensions, enough to attract people such as "Johnny" Wang Liang, a hairdresser who left fashion-conscious Guangzhou "because it was already full of people like me." Wang finds Wuhan fairly tame and doesn't like the food, but he is making good money dyeing orange the hair of the local youth at $25 a treatment, to create that Hong Kong fashion look. "It is all about money...
...reference to Fudan and Qinghua Universities, the former in Shanghai, the latter in Beijing. The "1948 communist revolution" is a typo, unless there's been some historical revisionism I'm not aware of. Shanghai is then referred to as a Northern Chinese city--sure, it's north of Guangzhou, but it lies in the middle of China and is generally considered an "eastern" city in Chinese place names. Finally, unless international air routes have changed, President Rudenstine will not be flying "east" to China, but west. PHILIP CUNNINGHAM March...
Business, like the entertainment business, is where the money is. "People here don't want to think about politics," says Rusa Won, who is all of 24. "Hong Kong people make a big deal out of politics. Guangzhou people come here to forget that stuff." The Cantonese, everyone freely admits, just want to make money. That's why Rusa Won disobeyed her parents to take this "not respectable" job paying 6,000 yuan ($730) a month, considerably more than her parents earn...
...everything legally," says Rusa Won, rolling her eyes as she ticks off the police inspectors and health inspectors and fire inspectors and bureaucrats who come regularly to check compliance. Rusa Won regards dealing with such matters as part of the experience necessary in the street-wise world of Guangzhou. "You learn who gives a sweet smile and who gives a phony smile," she says. "You learn how to manage employees, take care of customers...