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Jishou
Jishou
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. Urban improvements, whilst not extensive, give Jishou an atmosphere of impossible hope.

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. Jishou is a tiny yet proud city of unforgettable allure.
Articles:
      31      Jishou of Xiang Xi
      32      Living in Jishou
      34      Between the Temple and the Superette
      35      B.A.D.
      42      Old Jishou

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