Word: hua
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...seems then, that my feeling of uneasiness about my questionable knack for putong hua (Chinese for “common language,” Mandarin) is not that I’m seriously handicapped by it. Rather, I’m embarrassed by my ineptitude with a language I’ve spoken since I was born—bothered that there are some parts of my family’s culture that are not naturally inherited but require a conscious effort to understand...
...Chunqin Hua, BEIJING...
...Hua Mei just wants to be left alone. But a couple of scientists at the Wolong Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda keep poking her with long bamboo poles. Hua Mei, who is in heat and (biologically, at least) ready to mate, gets another prod, pushing her in the direction of the neighboring cage where her putative partner, Wu Gong, is watching with placid indifference. Hua Mei reluctantly decides to cooperate and, raising her tail, pads delicately backward toward Wu Gong. The male panda takes one look at her proffered hindquarters and scoots over to the far corner...
...them of the tides, and neither they nor their gang boss heeded locals' advice not to venture too far. Eventually 11 workers headed back to escape the icy wind and rain. By 10 p.m., 21 had drowned and two were missing, never to be found. Only one man, Li Hua, was rescued from the inky water that night, plucked from a rocky outcrop some 1,000 m from the shore...
...other survivors, proved crucial in sentencing Lin Liang Ren, 29, to 14 years in prison on 21 counts of manslaughter. Lin had fled the scene and later attempted to finger one of the dead men as responsible while he slipped away with a girlfriend and a cousin. But Li Hua revealed the underworld of Lin Liang Ren's network in Liverpool, from where the cockle pickers would travel by minibus each...