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...government's effort to unify China's disparate regions by stressing national over regional interests. Yet these days, China's profit-driven media are pulling in the opposite direction by marketing to provincial pride. A hot-selling series of new books, for instance, celebrates local mores. I Am a Northeastern Man champions the grace of Manchurian women, while The Spirit of the Hunan People argues that the courage of that province's denizens "earns them the respect of their enemies." The most popular song of the past two years compares people in the region near North Korea to the Communist...
...government's effort to unify China's disparate regions by stressing national over regional interests. Yet these days, China's profit-driven media are pulling in the opposite direction by marketing to provincial pride. A hot-selling series of new books, for instance, celebrates local mores. I Am a Northeastern Man champions the grace of Manchurian women, while The Spirit of the Hunan People argues that...
...decades, government officials have presented "work reports" to the provincial legislature, or People's Congress, of each province. And for decades, the legislatures rubber-stamped their approval. Following a series of high-profile corruption scandals in 2001, however, some People's Congresses?such as the one in the northeastern city of Shenyang?refused to approve deceptively rosy reports. These votes of no-confidence were pretty mild; they did not, for example, lead to the removal of chastened officials. Even so, that year Beijing began insisting that provincial Party secretaries also become the top leaders of their local parliaments. Since...
...refused to do during his last four years in office. But the chat only confirmed that they had nothing to talk about. In late December, the Basque regional parliament approved Ibarretxe's controversial proposal for a "free association" between the Basque Country and Spain. Under the plan, the wealthy northeastern region and its 2 million inhabitants would have an essentially separate judicial system, a separate representative to the European Union, and "a singular regime of political relations" with Madrid - more like those of a foreign country than a constituent part. The plan is close enough to outright secession to conjure...
...began by getting a good start and opening a short lead on Northeastern when he handed off the stick. From there, the race went almost perfectly for the Crimson. The rest of the team watched as the other three runners pulled away...