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...business is oil. Second, he's running from the police. Liu, who declines to reveal his full name, changes his cell-phone number weekly and won't pass two nights in the same bed. His fugitive life is shared by dozens of other wildcat oilmen in northern China's Shaanxi province, where independent drillers are fighting for compensation after the government seized their wells and detained several of those who complained. "I'm in debt to the banks and most people I know, and I can't even return home to visit my parents," says...
...stepped up its search for proven reserves?witness state-controlled oil giant CNOOC's effort to acquire California-based Unocal over protests from U.S. politicians. On home soil, Beijing now battles its own people. More than 10,000 investors, mostly peasants, secured rights to drill for oil in Shaanxi over the past decade, only to see their holdings nationalized. The drillers characterize the government's strategy as "confiscate now, compensate later," and those who have been paid insist they have not been given enough. In May and June, police arrested nine investors for protesting, and a Beijing-based lawyer...
...rather than urban insurrection, then a departure from orthodoxy. The leading advocate of that strategy was none other than Mao, who was working in another province at the time and therefore was spared the humiliation Deng suffered Deng was rehabilitated in time to join the Long March to northern Shaanxi province beginning in October 1934, and continued to support Mao's approach, eventually becoming political commissar of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. A U.S. military observer who met Deng during this period, Marine Corps Major Evans Carlson, remembered him as "short, chunky and physically tough, with...
...year-old student at Peking University, was crippled for life when he was denied medical treatment for a broken back, sustained in a fall caused by Red Guard tormentors. His daughter Deng Rong and younger son Deng Zhifang were banished to the countryside in the northern province of Shaanxi...
Some students on Harvard’s own campus believed the farce, and news outlets such as China’s state-owned Xinhua News Agency reported on the agreement. According to the Xinhua article, the Shaanxi International Trade College believed that Harvard would send teaching materials, equipment, teachers, and students through an exchange program with the Chinese school...