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...Under pressure from propaganda officials, Guangzhou-based Southern Weekend this month sacked three editors and effectively downgraded itself from the sassiest read in China to a rag as bland as the People's Daily. It's the latest casualty in the Communist Party's battle against the nation's increasingly independent-minded media, a clash that's linked to an internal power struggle over who will assume top party positions in a reshuffle expected next year. More immediately, the party will be celebrating its 80th anniversary on July 1 and wants to ensure that it gets good press...
...million gleaned from an anonymous investor and the company's 15-member management team, many of whom Cheng had known from nearly two decades in the technology industry. By 1997, Timeless had acquired two local systems-integration companies, and by 1998 it had opened its first China branch in Guangzhou and set up a joint venture in the special economic zone of Zhuhai...
Early in 1998, William Ding, then 26, took a bet on his future. After four years of writing software in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, he had saved $60,000--enough to pay for him to study at Stanford. China's Internet was then in its infancy, with fewer than 1 million users. But he sensed it was about to explode, and decided to stay in China and set up his own Internet company, Netease.com...
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...