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...Chinese writers. His Red Sorghum was turned into a prizewinning 1987 movie by director Zhang Yimou and picked by Chinese readers in a 1996 poll as their favorite novel. Mo Yan's Northeast Gaomi County, a fictional realm based on his hardscrabble hometown in the eastern province of Shandong, is as vivid a spot on the literary landscape as William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha or Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Kenzaburo Oe, a Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is among many admirers who insist that Mo Yan deserves the gong himself. Given the prize committee's distaste for success...
...chilling rite of passage endured by modern societies all over the world. Ruzhou was the sixth in a string of deadly attacks on Chinese schoolchildren that began in August, when a schizophrenic janitor at a Beijing kindergarten stabbed 14 children, killing one, according to police. A bus driver in Shandong province was executed earlier this month for slashing 24 kids in September; last month, a teacher in Hunan province was arrested for killing four students and wounding 12; two weeks later a man in Beijing was arrested for killing a six-year-old and stuffing him into the school...
...Provincial glitch • In our story on dissident Wang Dan, "The Exile and the Entrepreneur" [June 7], we incorrectly characterized Jinan as a province. In fact, Jinan is the capital city of Shandong province...
...Structure Co. as a scout on China's economic front line. Its 200 workers in Anhui province rivet together prefabricated structures for factory assembly lines, which churn out goods for stores like Wal-Mart. A year ago business was so brisk that the company imported 70 workers from distant Shandong province to keep up with demand. But the mainland's torrid investment in everything from automobile plants to office high-rises to railroads has boosted the price the company pays for its main raw material, steel, by 24% in just four months. Yet the company hasn't been able...
...latest to vanish is Li Guanqing, the Shandong province villager. A few minutes after Li spoke to a TIME journalist on the night of Feb. 12, a police car with sirens blazing screeched up to the curb near Li's bedraggled tent. Somebody, it seems, had alerted the cops that a nosy foreigner was asking questions about sensitive matters. The tight security was unsurprising, given an emergency notice circulated to officials by the Ministry of Land and Resources this month that urged: "When signs of petitioners entering Beijing arise, [officials] must mobilize all local channels to engage in dissuasion work...