Word: hunan
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...1950s. My taste was too elevated to tolerate frozen vegetables, supermarket ice cream, one-from-Column-A Chinese restaurants, off-the-rack clothing and clunky domestic automobiles. Yuck, how Middle American! My refined sensibilities required only the best: fresh asparagus, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Sichuan and Hunan restaurants, ventless Italian suits. But I was never one of those yuppies; they drove BMWs...
...style, the Chairman himself is more popular today than at any time in the past decade. Once tossed aside as shameful relics of the hated Cultural Revolution, Mao buttons and portraits are selling fast in some Chinese shops and stalls. Last year 900,000 people visited his birthplace in Hunan province, a record since the late 1970s. And a forthcoming film stresses his human qualities, portraying him as an unassuming leader who loved ballroom dancing...
Four years ago, Mark Salzman made an enviable debut as a writer. Iron and Silk was an account of the two years he spent in Hunan teaching English to Chinese medical students. A young man's book, it was modest and graceful and, most important, managed to reflect how the author's own openness and charm brought out the candor in the reserved Chinese people he encountered...
...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...