Word: guangzhou
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...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 it to another country. In the novel's final scene, Jian incinerates his student identity card and crops his hair. We never do know if he gets out of China...
...have for fomenting social unrest, officials also warned businesses against gouging consumers; in August, authorities accused instant-noodle makers of illegally conspiring to raise prices. Meanwhile, to allay public anxiety about eroding paychecks, Beijing has been encouraging local governments to raise minimum wages, which cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Nanjing have done...
This TIME Style & Design poll of 411 affluent Chinese respondents was conducted through personal interviews in June 2007 by GfK Roper at 54 different locations in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou, including upscale shopping malls, boutiques, hotels, luxury-car dealerships and fitness clubs. Respondents made at least 15,000 yuan a month. The margin of error...
...matter of a few years before China becomes a leading player in the field. Toward that end, a major expansion is taking place in the subject's teaching, with existing undergraduate and graduate studio-glass programs being supplemented by new courses in cities including Hangzhou, Nanjing, Xi'an and Guangzhou. An ambitious new glass-art museum is also being planned for Shanghai, in time for the city's 2010 World Expo...
...That approach appears to be working. For Cloud Gate, which has performed at arts festivals in Shanghai and Guangzhou in recent years, the return invitation to the Chinese capital carries political weight - seen as the mainland's nod toward the island's contemporary-arts scene (even if not to the nascent Taiwanese democracy in which the arts have thrived). Mainland Chinese are "beginning to realize what has happened in Taiwan's artistic environment over the last 40 years," says Hsu Po-yun, director-general of the International New Aspect Culture and Education Foundation, a Taiwan arts-promotion body. "They take...