Word: guangzhou
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...That's not to say that they aren't enjoyable. Wu Zhen's two-color poster series, I Love Guangzhou, would never earn the local tourist board's tick of approval, but it has a streetwise, hand-drawn roughness that is far closer to the actual character of the city than official depictions are. Jon Fong's white paper-cut rendition of the infamous couplet "A hundred flowers blossoming/ A hundred viewpoints contending" is wonderfully funereal, referencing the use of the motto in Mao's Hundred Flowers campaign, during which hundreds of thousands of rightists were imprisoned, tortured or killed...
...sixth of seven children, Lee was born in Hong Kong but was raised in nearby Guangzhou, on the mainland. He earned his B.A. from the University of Hong Kong before studying law at Lincoln's Inn in London. After returning to Hong Kong to practice law, he was elected to the Legislative Council in 1985 and became a member of the Beijing-appointed committee to draft Hong Kong?s Basic Law. But when Beijing cracked down on protestors in Tiananmen Square in 1989, Lee's role in leading protests in Hong Kong led to his ouster from the Basic...
During his visit to the Guangzhou train station last week, Wen told the travelers that they "eat bitterness" - a Chinese expression for enduring hardship. That may be true even when they're not stranded by the snow. It has been the willingness of millions of migrant workers to suffer grueling hours at low pay that has turned this nation into an economic power. Lately, authorities have begun to realize they cannot take such sacrifice for granted. "Only in the last couple of years, as labor prices have begun to rise, have local authorities in Guangdong paid more attention to migrant...
...workers had a grateful employer looking out for them, though. Some 260,000 people swarmed outside the Guangzhou station last weekend following a report that the northbound route had returned to service. Li Hongxia, an 18-year-old woman employed by a watch factory in the city had been heading for her village in Hubei province, when she fell and was trampled to death by the surging crowd...
...recent days, major road and rail lines have begun to reopen, and the crowds of travelers outside the Guangzhou station are a fraction of their previous size. Qi Huilin, 39, and his 19-year-old son, Chunjie, who had spent the past six months working in a shoe factory, stood outside Wednesday, holding tickets bought earlier in the day. "Before it was impossible," Huilin says. It will be another day before their train begins the 16-hour journey home to Henan. They'll eat their New Year's Eve dinner in the station, he says, then try to find...