Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...China-bound travelers in decades past, the first glimpse of the People's Republic was often the sleepy border town of Shumchun, a short walk across a bridge from the British colony of Hong Kong. Visitors sensed immediately that they were in another country, a world apart from the bustle of capitalist Hong Kong. Men and women in baggy pants moved at quarter-speed in a changeless setting of rural stupor...
...longer. Shenzhen (the new spelling under the Pinyin system) is now a vast building site. Construction crews stir dust as they dig sewers, build roads and prepare foundations for factories and apartment buildings. Local women wearing skintight jeans made in Hong Kong sell U.S. and British cigarettes and cans of Coca-Cola from roadside stalls. Hackies hustle bewildered visitors, demanding as much as $65 an hour for riding in their dilapidated Japanese-made taxis...
Three years ago, Chinese officials invited Hong Kong makers of appliances, toys, shoes and garments to set up plants in Shenzhen. Western businessmen were told that they could export their products and share in any profits. Many Hong Kong companies quickly took up the offer, since rents were often 95% cheaper than in the crowded crown colony and wages 75% less than they were paying...
...hopes for a diplomatic bridgehead in Communist China. The government not only freed him from prison last year but recognized him as head of the Canton diocese. Tang later went to Rome, and Pope John Paul II named him permanent Archbishop of Canton. But Archbishop Tang had barely reached Hong Kong before Peking stripped him of office. China Daily complained that in receiving a papal appointment, Tang had violated the independence and dignity of the autonomous Chinese church. Now he is only a bishop-in-exile...
...pounds, James Clavell's Noble House is literally the summer's big book, an alternative challenge for those who keep vowing to read War and Peace. Tolstoy, after all, spent his words on some 15 years of European history; Clavell covers a mere ten days in bygone Hong Kong. Sample chapter heading...