Word: yuan
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...life plenty fortunate already. His construction job near the city of Fuzhou earns him $375 a month in peak season. With that salary, he can afford Levis and Internet sessions to learn about his future home. He prefers David Beckham to Wayne Rooney, and knows the pound-yuan exchange rate. Often, Little Lin talks with his friends in England through icq or text messages. "There is not so much distance between Fujian and England," he says...
...glimpse of the hellish conditions in which millions of Chinese miners work can be seen in the documentary Yuan Shan (Distant Mountain), by filmmaker Hu Jie. Although the film was made more than 10 years ago, industry observers say conditions have changed little in China's private mines. Shot in Qinghai province, near Tibet, the film shows miners working in tunnels so low that they crouch at the coal face, dressed in little more than loincloths. After they fill their quota, the miners have to turn and crawl hundreds of yards, pulling a basketful of coal twice their body weight...
...Beijing to nab him. For the next six months, he was kept under virtual house arrest. Then, after trying to leave his village without official permission last March, Chen was arrested again. In June, the charges against him were announced and his conviction followed. (Chen's wife Yuan Weijing, Li says, faced similar charges and is now under house arrest in their home village, caring for their...
...system. As Li notes, it is rare for a petition even to be accepted by the relevant office, much less be acted on. And in many cases, orders issued in Beijing or a provincial capital as a result of a successful petition are ignored by lower authorities. (Tiangao, huangdi yuan, the Chinese say: "Heaven is high and the Emperor is far away." Beijing has always had enormous trouble enforcing its will in the far-flung corners of China, where the local bosses pretty much do what they want). Still, Li said that so far Chen's spirits are holding...
...oddly streaked jeans, next a shop with frilly jackets and flowery coats. After two hours of hunting, she finally plunks down $24 on a pair of brown shoes at a funky outlet selling studded boots and fluffy handbags that's playing earsplitting Gwen Stefani tunes. Wang spends nearly every yuan she earns as a real estate agent on shopping excursions, dinners and drinking sessions with friends. That's no small chunk of change. Since her first job in a coffee shop eight years ago, Wang's annual income has vaulted more than 1,500%, to $7,500. "Five years...