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 | | In Hunan's Xiang Xi, the Miao ethnic minority's semi-autonomous region, Jishou is a small city with a large and growing university, which resonates with the heaviness of miles of surrounding lonely farmland and which is a hive of students, peasants, and a new class of entrepreneurs trying to make something modern of a remote town. |
 | | Jishou is inescapably distant to the world and to the new China, and yet is still quite clearly under its influence. |
 | | Yet this is not to say that Jishou is hopeless; indeed it is the rising star of the region, and since the visitation of Chinese premier Zhu Rongji during the time I was staying there, it has undergone rapid redecoratation. |
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