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...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...
Chaos has already come to China: its name is Guangzhou. This southern madhouse of a city lashes the nerves. Noise. Dirt. Pollution. Crowds. Blinding neon ricocheting off mirrored towers. Ceaseless tearing down and building up, with no visible organizing principle, just decrepit neighborhoods vanishing into gaping construction holes. It is Hong Kong without the veneer of British order, capitalism out of control. This is the world of money, money, money; a city that never sleeps, with dress shops open at midnight and vendors hawking at dawn. No wonder its presiding genius is Deng Xiaoping, smiling down from a giant mural...
...wonder too that Rusa Won traded her dull secretarial job with Procter & Gamble for a high-glam marketing post at the Rock 'n' Roll Club. Guangzhou's hottest dance mecca lures a thousand free-spending hipsters a night at 80 yuan ($10) a head. Amid flashing lasers, throbbing strobes, wafts of colored fog, Guangzhou's young and rich pulsate to the pounding, 200-decibel beat of Western rap. "Politics?" hoots an 18-year-old who calls himself Jeff. "We come here to play." "Politics!" laughs his sister, 22, swiveling and shimmying. "I just want to relax...
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...