Between Mao and capitalism, a village finds the good life
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NANJIE, China -- The sky is still black when the village loudspeaker blazes the revolutionary song "The East Is Red." A three-story-high statue of Chairman Mao looms over a square flanked by giant portraits of the socialist all-stars: Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin.
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DUOLUN COUNTY, China  - Until giant sand dunes swallowed his home, Deng Baogui was a shepherd and wheat farmer in an Inner Mongolian village where his family had lived for three generations.
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China's more than 700 million farmers are happier than before despite a growing wealth gap, while poor urban residents are being squeezed by rising food and property prices, a top government think tank said on Thursday.
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NAUBISE, Nepal : Somewhere on the other side of the mist-covered green hills that guard Nepal&#39;s ancient capital Kathmandu, Maoist rebels are grinning.
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Down a short alley in the sprawling, tourist-mobbed 798 art district in Beijing is a tiny shop that serves as one of the centers of Chinaâs small but thriving experimental music scene.
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As a growing economy produces new wealth and a spreading middle class in China, the epochal Cultural Revolution has receded to the distant past in just one generation.
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NANJING, China -- On the street, they are often the target of laughter or cruel whispers. Individually, they have all been denied jobs or their parents' praise.
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HAMBURG -- They closed the cinema and then the disco. The tractors grew scarce and the men grew moody. Claudia Mantzsch's east German hometown seemed to shrink. She wanted to stay but was laid off two weeks after getting her first job. Her boss offered some advice: Flee this place, or become a nurse for the elderly.
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The destruction of the tiny village of Sugai is a lesson in the difficulty of enforcing environmental rules in China.
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WADI FUKIN, West Bank -- The Palestinians of this village have long looked toward Tzur Hadassah, a neighboring Israeli town, for jobs building homes on land that decades ago belonged to them.
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JINGGANGSHAN, China  - In the fog-shrouded   mountains of China's Jiangxi province, where eight decades ago   a motley band of Communist rebels took refuge among the cypress   trees and bamboo, Mao Zedong is undisputed number one.
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The politically sensitive gap in incomes between China's booming cities and the poor countryside is widening
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Nawa Raj Joshi was a teacher for more than 30 years in a small village in western Nepal, until one day Maoist rebels decided they didn't like his politics.
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BEIJING/HONG KONG  - The Cultural Revolution is long over and Mao Zedong dead and preserved for posterity, but a new generation is putting a modern design spin on clothes and accessories inspired by China's Communist heyday.
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China's future Communist Party cadres are learning about Mickey Mouse along with Mao.
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COTTENHAM, England -- A brutal killing, cigarette smuggling, a tax revolt, and a human rights dispute -- the last things one would expect to find in an English village.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mous...