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...AIDS? Little Jade, 21, refuses to be tested because if it turns out she is infected, the clinic would be obliged to tell the authorities. She would be detained because she traveled to Kunming, capital of China's Yunnan province, without the required work papers. Now she sells herself for $17 to men who pass along this lane like gray, restless shadows. She knows that AIDS can kill her, slowly and hideously. "If I get AIDS, I'll go far, far away," she vows. "I'd rather die than shame my mother and father with this. They think...
...Yunnan, bordering on the Golden Triangle, is the worst hit by AIDS - health workers say there are at least 50,000 victims - because of its large population of heroin shooters. Little Jade has only been hustling for two months, but it was long enough to pick up a heroin habit. She says her occasional boyfriend, a hospital orderly, helped her kick the addiction by locking her in a room for 15 agonizing days. However, the disease may already be laying siege to her immune system...
...enforce AIDS awareness with the zeal it applied to the one-child policy or new capitalism. Officially, prostitution and drug addiction don't exist, so having officials go around to the brothels handing out condoms to the girls is unthinkable. But several AIDS-afflicted provinces are moving forcefully. In Yunnan, health authorities teamed up with MEdecins sans Frontieres and other foreign agencies to educate at-risk Chinese about AIDS. "We're hoping they pass the word on to others," says Liu Wei, director of the province's AIDS prevention center...
...China has held an allure for religious emissaries since Ricci in the 16th century, then today's Mecca is Yunnan province, which abuts Burma. It attracts Christian workers for its distance from the country's political medulla in Beijing, its poverty and its large number of isolated minority hill tribes. So many Christian families have located in Yunnan that they have set up a school for their kids. The Kunming International Academy, nestled against an apartment complex in Yunnan's capital, Kunming, began with two families in 1994 and now has 100 students from 18 countries. It is run like...
...what was amazing about all this was the audience: they were all elderly Chinese couples on day trips from Yunnan province. About 10,000 Chinese tourists visit Mongla every day?among them, these grandmothers with blue-rinsed hair who sat unflinchingly as a trannie waltzed on in a see-through flamenco dress...