Word: sichuan
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...tale, Namu opens a window onto one of the world's last matrilineal societies. The Mosuo number only some 30,000 and live near pristine Lugu Lake, which lies at the base of the sacred Gamu Mountain, the protective site of their mother goddess on the border of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in southwestern China. They practice their own shamanistic religion, called Daba, and also Tibetan Buddhism. But it's the role of Mosuo women that sets them apart from other cultures: they don't marry. Instead, womenfolk take a series of lovers throughout their lives, and the children...
...beaten to death in custody in Guangzhou last March after neglecting to carry identification; in May, a police chief in Shaanxi province was arrested for allegedly helping a gangster and the gangster's 14-year-old son join the force; in June, a three-year-old girl in Sichuan province starved to death after police reportedly detained her mother for drug use and ignored for 17 days her pleas that the girl be collected from their locked apartment. Small wonder that in August the Beijing-based China Newsweekly declared that "the police today face their most severe crisis of confidence...
After the drinking's done, head for comfort food at Xin Jiu Long, tel: (86-10) 6255 7348, one of Beijing's best restaurants. For the past decade this University District eatery has packed them in with a menu of several regional cuisines, though the house specialty is Sichuan. Tucked in an intimate neighborhood behind the Yansha Hotel and across from People's University, the restaurant is divided into three public dining rooms on the ground floor and private ones upstairs. Sit at a table by the windows in the main room for a view of one of the capital...
...Price paid at auction by China's Sichuan Airlines for the lucky phone number 8888-8888. Eight is a homonym in Chinese for rich...
...Jiatai's disposable cups ought to runneth over. In 2002, says the entrepreneur from western China's Sichuan province, his private company made and sold $2.5 million worth of paper containers for food and beverages. He has four production lines making paper cups in hangar-like buildings, and 20 young women from the countryside toil in the yard beside them, pasting labels for White Family Potato Noodles onto single-serving bowls. Business has never been better. Yet Mao, like so many other owners of private companies in China, can't get funding to take his firm to a higher level...