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...As Wullschläger acknowledged “it speaks volumes about pressures of gender expectation that Kauffman’s liveliest paintings portray her male contemporaries”....
...About a quarter of usage related to improved communications. These efficiencies raised productivity, without replacing entire jobs....
...In addition to their two mu (0.13 hectares) of land, they till vacant fields of former residents. Almost single-handedly, the Lis fend off wild vegetation from taking over Qinghe’s surroundings....
...less than Rmb500 per mu before they started working it....
...nationalists among the younger generation, because of the influence of Communist party education, and because of the increasing social and economic pressures they face,” says political commentator Qiao Mu...
...Qiao Mu, a former professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University now living in the US, says such machinations are the main preoccupation of the party’s quinquennial congresses....
...Additional reporting by Wan Li...
...“Xiao is definitely one of Xi's people but he could be seen as a co-ordinator between Xi and Li, having worked so closely with Li,” said a Beijing-based policy analyst who did not want to be named....
...“Xi appears to be strong on the surface,” says Qiao Mu, a Beijing-based scholar. “But it’s hard to say if he can get what he wants [at the congress]. Nobody knows for sure until the last moment.”...
...Qiao Mu, a former journalism professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, said the case would have been “completely preventable” if Chinese media were allowed to report freely on misconduct....
...Additional reporting by Luna Lin and Wan Li...
...Additional reporting by Ma Nan, Wan Li and Jackie Cai...
...Fuyou villagers were offered Rmb90,000 ($14,516) per mu (15 mu equal one hectare)....
...“The March 15 broadcast is controversial,” said Qiao Mu, a journalism professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University....
...years for as little as Rmb5,000-Rmb6,000 ($804-$965) per mu a year....
...Baoyu, for 50 years for as little as Rmb5,000-6,000 ($803-963) per mu a year....
...The government provides enough water to each farmer to cultivate 2.5 mu of land per person (slightly less than half an acre), but no more than that....
...The Rmb700m ($111m) project, covering an area of 200 mu (a suitably ancient Asian term to describe what the west calls 13 hectares), is being run by a monk with an MBA in Taoist temple management....
...Li Jing, an official in the district where the park is set to be built, said the company funding the development was private....
...“I have been to the Mission Hills in Shenzhen,” Li announced proudly....
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