Word: hunan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprisingly, Guangdong's success has produced severe envy, what the Chinese call "red eye" disease. The neighboring province of Hunan feels particularly aggrieved by what it sees as Guangdong's economic warlordism. Faced with the migration of millions of its residents to Guangdong, Hunan on occasion has even gone so far as to establish border roadblocks to stem the flow of materials and people...
Then there are "the girls," about 3,000 of them, who work from 7:30 in the morning until 11 at night six days a week. None I speak with are over 19. Almost all are from Hunan province. Most stay no more than two years and then return home to marry. They earn close to $200 a month, an almost unheard-of wage in China...
...been quick to brand as "counterrevolutionaries" students and workers who voiced far subtler sentiments, shipping them off to jail, or worse. What was so intriguing about this book, published last May, was that its author was the official Communist Youth League committee in Mao Zedong's home province of Hunan, and that copies were circulating more than three months after the massacre in Tiananmen Square. Youth League officials in Beijing claimed not to know anything about the tract's origins, but they said the case was "under investigation." Said a Western diplomat: "The language is strongly reminiscent of the Cultural...
...young certainly do. Prosperity next door has become a magnet for young Hunanese, though they may still lack the skills to benefit quickly. Those who remain behind contend that the lure of Guangdong saps Hunan of its best and brightest. In Changsha, the capital of Hunan, one government functionary demands a radical solution. "We should not merely ask for higher prices for our rice and vegetables," he says. "We should demand 40% of Guangdong's foreign-exchange earnings. Otherwise we would really become its colony." Some Hunanese have gone so far as blockading the border to prevent the outflow...
...moment, Hunan officials are doing their best to downplay the tensions created by growing inequality with their neighbors. Says Vice Governor Yang: "The old and the new systems coexist." To avoid friction between the provinces, says a Western diplomatic analyst in China, Beijing must "either roll back the reforms or expand the experiment to the rest of the country as quickly as possible." As Premier Li pointed out at the NPC, however, the government is not likely to take either course at this time. While one China presses on, the other must wait its turn...