Word: kaifeng
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...finds himself in what he calls "the kingdom of squeeze," where truckloads of rations, clothing and military supplies often fall prey to Nationalist strongmen who are as intent on lining their own pockets as on preventing the country from slipping into Communist control. Stationed in Shanghai and then Kaifeng, Rowan develops both a sympathy for the peasants caught between the battling political factions, and a gnawing desire to document the pitfalls of America's misguided efforts to prop up the regime of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek...
...were still prevented from leaving their villages, even though the Han also participated in the violence. At roadblocks across the county, police scanned cars looking for people wearing Muslim headgear, and long-distance buses driven by Hui were turned away, says one Public Security Bureau official from nearby Kaifeng city, for fear that the Muslims would band together and attack...
...Chun's world is an apolitical but noisy place where Sonic Youth and REM share the soundscape with homegrown alt-rock bands like Pangu and PK14. It's a world where doting parents indulge their spoiled children?Chun's mother takes her from Beijing to Kaifeng to mingle with SpermOva, a punk band she adores, and stays alone in a guesthouse until Chun is ready to return to Beijing four nights later...
...always on the periphery of a great empire. The cultural metropole was in China, and Japan was forever trying to catch up with the latest trends and fashions in art, clothes, literature, religion, politics and philosophy. News of these trends arrived from faraway cities, such as Chang'an, Nanjing, Kaifeng or Beijing...
Center of the World Baghdad: Bazaar of world trade; seat of the most prestigious caliphate. Rivals: Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire; Kaifeng in Song dynasty China...