Word: sichuan
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...many of China's crumbling state-owned industries. According to the China Labor Bulletin, a publication printed in Hong Kong and smuggled to mainland labor dissidents, more than 300 strikes and protests broke out in March and April in the northeast provinces of Anhui, Heilongjiang, Gansu, Liaoning, Shaanxi and Sichuan, some lasting more than 40 days and involving more than 200,000 people. Tens of thousands of unemployed and underemployed workers marched through Heilongjiang province's two largest industrial towns, Harbin and Qiqiha'er, the Bulletin reported. Some demonstrators reportedly committed suicide in front of officials, while others chanted...
...drama department at Manhattan's ritzy Dalton School is so politically correct that a recent production of Bertolt Brecht's classic The Good Woman of Sichuan, the story of a young woman who disguises herself as a man, was titled The Good Person of Sichuan. Watch for other revisions in these hypersensitive times...
...enforcement. But even if the governments commit themselves, it could be centuries before the animal populations recover from what has already been done. "It will take 400 to 500 years before any headway is really made," says Hu Jinchu, an expert on pandas at the Nanchong Normal College in Sichuan. "We've wrested too much from nature...
...discretionary income in the 1950s. My taste was too elevated to tolerate frozen vegetables, supermarket ice cream, one-from-Column-A Chinese restaurants, off-the-rack clothing and clunky domestic automobiles. Yuck, how Middle American! My refined sensibilities required only the best: fresh asparagus, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Sichuan and Hunan restaurants, ventless Italian suits. But I was never one of those yuppies; they drove BMWs...
...fried Sichuan chicken is a good example. Chicken breasts are sauteed in a regular skillet, then drenched in a delicious sauce composed of the usual Chinese suspects: oyster, bean and hoisin sauces, sherry instead of Chinese wine, ginger, garlic, chili sauce and Sichuan peppercorns. Another of the charms of this book is the notion of serving these Oriental-style dishes along with Western foods, in this case with steamed carrots in parsley butter...