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was clear that my old student remains lost in Asia and that I have a new
friend in the person of Mr. B.H. Jiang (or, as it is written in Chinese,
Jiang Bao Heng -- jbh -- with the last name coming first). Mr. Jiang, it
turns out, is a man in his thirties who supports himself and his photography
by working as a computer salesman in Guangzhou. Guangzhou is a city of over
six million people, one of those burgeoning new industrial giants that dot
the Pearl River Delta in southeastern China. |
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| It is the capital of Guangdong
Province that takes in the cities of Hong Kong (since July 1, 1997), Huizhou,
Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan, Jiangmen, Zhongshan, and Zuhai. The "registered"
population of the delta is said to be about 25 million persons. The "unregistered"
population, which includes migrant laborers who come from the interior of
China hoping to share in the growing prosperity of these new "special
economic zones". |
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