Word: shawls
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...crushing effect of China's responsibility system can be seen in the case of a 55-year-old doctor in a city near Beijing. With her gently permed hair and knit shawl, the GP is solidly middle-class and had been thinking about retirement. But she practiced Falun Gong and protested in Tiananmen Square. Upon being arrested, police escorted her by bus back to her hometown; there, colleagues were waiting at the station with the hospital's Volkswagen. She was handed over to her friends, and the car sped off?away from her home. "Where are we going?" she asked...
Above left: Vincent van Gogh, 'Sien's Sister with Shawl,' 1883, chalk and graphite...