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Disneyland is supposed to be "The Happiest Place on Earth," but Liang Ning isn't too happy. The engineer brought his family to Disney's new theme park in Hong Kong from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou one Saturday in April with high hopes, but by day's end, he was less than spellbound. "I wanted to forget the world and feel like I was in a fairytale," he says. Instead, he complains, "it's just not big enough" and "not very different from the amusement parks we have" in China. His seven-year-old daughter Yaqin disagrees, calling...
...border, cutting the travel time to the Chinese industrial city of Nanning from two days to seven hours. "Hanoi is one of the best locations if you want to sell to China," says Kenjiro Ishiwata, chief Hanoi representative for the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). "The monthly salary in Guangzhou is above $100 now. Around Hanoi, the average is about $50, so it's actually cheaper to produce here and transport north...
...Empress of China, the first U.S. ship to trade with China, arrives in Canton (now Guangzhou) after a six-month voyage, carrying 2,600 fur pelts and 30 tons of ginseng. It returns home with cotton, porcelain, silk and tea, earning the ship's owners about $30,000 in profits...
...movement coming up from below. There is a profound lack of faith in everything. We are almost just resigned, which is a terrible thing for an entire generation under 30. Rashid Ech Chetouani 27, lives in the Paris suburb Asnières; started a business importing memory sticks from Guangzhou, China Most of these demonstrating students will have no problem getting a job eventually. It's we in the banlieues who have problems. We are looking to work just for one day, two months, anything. We just want to work, no matter what the contract is. This new cpe (First...
...insistence that British royal officials could only communicate with provincial Chinese authorities indirectly by way of “petition,” instead of on terms of diplomatic equality. There was also irritation with Chinese constraints on trade—Western traders were confined to Canton (modern Guangzhou) lest too many foreigners should disturb the tranquility of Chinese life. But the British, like everyone else, were dazzled by the prospect of a limitless Chinese market, if only they could get there; so they wanted more ports opened to trade. Furthermore, free trade was fast becoming a moral imperative...