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...young protagonist of The Coffin on the Hill climbs aboard a houseboat on the Yangtze River (Welch was born in Shanghai, where his father was a partner in a firm that managed rubber plantations): "Leaning forward and putting out my tongue I licked the brass rim of one of the portholes, in order to realize the ship with all my senses. Then I curled up in a corner of the fitted seat and felt like a mole, or some other perfectly happy blind animal, burrowing deeper and deeper, coming at last to its true home...
...country changes course The winds of reform have swept over China with unequal force. Sichuan is a showcase for the new agriculture, Shenzhen is a magnet for foreign investment and a high-tech boomtown, but Shanghai remains peculiarly impervious to Deng's goals...
While traveling abroad, I found that the approaches to birth control vary from country to country. Family-planning classes at Fudan University in Shanghai are in the department of economics because the need to feed and shelter families has become an acute financial problem for the Chinese. Turkey assigns its birth control clinics to the Department of Labor, believing that a lower birth rate will mean fewer unemployed in future generations. The Egyptian government includes family planning in its Department of Family Health. Jules F. Rosenbaum Houston...
...Annual disposable income of a resident of Lanzhou. A Shanghai resident has more than twice that...
...Number of skyscrapers in Shanghai. In 1985 there was just...