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...delis and thanked his volunteers at a couple of his campaign offices - he didn't visit any polling stations - his reaction to why-the-kooky-one-state-strategy questions was oddly muted. "My message for today is go vote, so the strategy will be correct," he said with a wan smile...
...Outside, Wan Chunbo, a 23-year-old driver for a company in Guangzhou, watches as a neon sign flashes the locations of ticket refund centers. "I want to go home, but I think it will be tough," he says, shivering and nodding at the crowds nearby. "Look at all those people." He doubts his chances of making it home to Jiangxi province, an eight-hour trip. "Spring Festival is almost here so everybody wants to go home and be with their families," Wan says. "My heart will be a little pained if I can't make it. I've worked...
...novel The Crazed ends amid the aftermath of the bloody Tiananmen massacre of June 1989. Jian Wan, the longhaired grad student and narrator, has been in Beijing and has seen the monstrous crackdown firsthand. Back in his staid university town, he is tipped off that the police are coming to arrest him as a counterrevolutionary. He flees, hawking his Phoenix bike to a fruit vendor for some apricots and enough change to buy a train ticket to Nanjing. From there, Jian plans to board an express train heading south to Guangzhou, then sneak into Hong Kong and eventually make...
Frank Sun, restaurateur and architect Have a drink at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel's Captain's Bar, tel: (852) 2825 4006. It has a lot of history. Then take a walk from there to Sheung Wan - a very different side of old Hong Kong and one that is rapidly disappearing. You can visit shops that still make traditional sausages and sell dried seafood...
Course No. 3: Wan (lidded bowl)--usually a clear soup...