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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miraculous economic transformation, to Beijing and a village not far from the capital that is infinitely poorer than towns a thousand miles farther inland, I find little that is charming or especially exotic. Just a mostly drab and dusty country, a perfect backdrop for the tedious and too often unrewarding nature of daily life. Still, the people seem energetic, if fitful; a fifth of the world's population in a cage. Good, hardworking people who deserve better than the suffocating Communism that limits their enterprise...
...centrality of family life, long separation is common in China. It is not rare for spouses to work in different cities and see each other infrequently. Similarly, far from signaling neglect, paying to deposit a three-year-old in another's care for a week away from home is often taken as a sign of affluence. In fact, since the economic reforms have raised the living standards of so many Chinese, a complaint about quan tuo is that without guanxi -- connections, a word I was to hear repeatedly -- no amount of wealth can secure a coveted sleep-away space...
...troublesome as it can sometimes be to have a mercurial government as one's business partner, greater problems often arise from a mismatch of position and personnel. Most jobs are assigned by the government, often with little regard for a person's qualifications or preferences...
...MISERABLES. Tours often look tatty compared with the Broadway originals, but that's far from true of the glistening and passionate company now installed in Detroit. Notable among a solid cast are J. Mark McVey as Jean Valjean and the locally recruited children...
When they arrive in Asia, U.S. cigarette producers often try to light up the female and teenage market, a strategy that particularly angers health experts. In Taiwan street peddlers hired by U.S. firms hand out free cigarette samples at discos. Marketers for R.J. Reynolds last year planned to charge five empty packets of its Winston cigarettes as admission to a rock concert in Taiwan but dropped the idea in the face of a public outcry...