Word: jiangxi
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...Deng and many other political moderates, the Cultural Revolution was a nightmare. With his wife Zhuo Lin, Deng was exiled to southern Jiangxi province, where he was forced to perform manual labor in a tractor factory and wait on tables in a mess hall. Members of Deng's family were also punished for his political sins. His younger brother Deng Shuping, a city official in Guiyang, was hounded mercilessly by self-appointed Red Guard officials and in despair committed suicide in 1967. His elder son Deng Pufang, a 22-year-old student at Peking University, was crippled for life when...
...similar to the coronavirus that causes SARS. That research, initially hailed as a breakthrough in establishing the zoonotic origins of SARS, resulted in the Guangdong government temporarily shutting down the wildlife markets and banning the sale of civets. For Yi, who attended medical school at Nanchang Medical College in Jiangxi province before completing his Ph.D. at HKU, this should have been a crowning moment...
...surprise that American conservatives were huffing about China. They called for China’s normal trade relations status to be revoked. Some members of Congress even called for punitive sanctions against China. But the reactionary conservatives in Washington were livid not because peasants in Jiangxi Province had been gunned down, nor were they concerned for poor Chi Shouzu. Instead, they were angry that Chinese authorities had deprived an American of sleep...
...them to factories. "Sometimes the teachers beat us with a wooden plank," Zhang says. "Making fireworks is hard." It's also hazardous, especially when the workers are children who shouldn't be playing with fireworks, much less manufacturing them. Last week an explosion ripped apart Zhang's school in Jiangxi province, killing more than 40 students and teachers and shedding stark light on the dangerous prevalence of child labor in China and on a political culture that can make anything, even the accidental death of schoolchildren, into a political loyalty test. For Zhang, who graduated a year ago, the disaster...
...will sacrifice myself, blast all, burn all, kill scores of them, all is over." Suddenly, the race among Chinese journalists to cover a hot story became a rush to tow the party line. Editors recalled their reporters and ran only official stories under headlines like: SCHOOL EXPLOSION AFTERMATH IN JIANGXI WELL HANDLED. Chinese Web portals deleted earlier newspaper articles that had mentioned the fireworks. Police told peasants not to talk to reporters...