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...bathroom floor, and a central bathroom drain that sends the smells of several other toilets wafting up near mine. As long as I have flip-flops lashed to my feet, though, it’s quite tolerable. For 20 hours of classroom time per week, I earn 4,000 yuan per month—about $500. The school slips in 300 yuan per month for transportation and 100 yuan per hour of overtime. In a city where a four-yuan bowl of noodles will keep me full for half a day, I’m doing just fine...
...home. A Gallup poll earned top headlines after finding 95% support for the bid among Beijing residents. But there's another explanation for such favorable results: heavy-handed propaganda. A similar poll showing 87% support outside Beijing went unreported because "it was deemed too low," says Victor Yuan of Horizon Research, which conducted the study. Ordinary Chinese will never read a quote saying the Games "will bring Beijing's corruption to the world's attention," as Zhao Hong, a teacher of Marxist philosophy in the distant city of Kunming, told TIME. And they don't know that a member...
...Chen Shui-bian will face a mandate on his presidency in early December when all 225 seats of the Legislative Yuan come up for grabs. Until now, Chen's ability to push through a legislative program and stamp a new imprint on Taiwanese society has been stymied by the KMT's hold on a majority of parliamentary seats. His own DPP controls barely one-third of the seats. Since no party is likely to win a majority in the vote, taking 80 or 85 seats in the Yuan would be a crucial gain for Chen and his DPP. It would...
...fried oysters and clams with basil, while sidewalk vendors peddle Taiwanese favorites like betel nut and barbecued chicken sphincters on a stick. Taiwanese madams oversee karaoke bar-brothels. Bemused new arrivals can get help with acclimation from books like the bestseller Shanghai Migrants, which advises that "a few thousand yuan a month will support a second wife, and that's a good deal because she'll also cook and clean...
...Zhou's efforts?by midday 20 prospective clients are waiting in his sitting room?have left him exhausted, bad-tempered and $25,000 in debt from handouts and unpaid fees. "Places like Shenzhen are built on sweatshops," he growls. "Old machinery, no training, 14 hours a day, 450 yuan ($56) a month, ineffective safeguards?that's the secret of China's economic 'miracle.' The government knows this. So the government protects the bosses and does not enforce the law." The result, he says, is a rising swell of anger directed at the government and the Communist Party. Lai Nilang...