XiuShui weekend
January 16th 2009 I returned last Monday from a wonderful weekend as the guest of my student helper, Dong Ping, at her family's home in XiuShui, in far northwest Guangdong Province. Mr. Wang is first (or second?) in command of the Communist Party in that district, so he is a high-status person in this small town of about 5,000. (Note: As of the late 1980's, Chinese officials no longer refer to each other as "Comr
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