The consul general, Peter Haymond, was not in Chengdu at the time, officials said, leaving Mr. Wang's case to subordinates.
It values Chengdu, at the time having an urban population of 4.5 million people, at around US$115 billion, with only a small portion covered by insurance.
She was twelve at the time, and Chengdu was the site of brutal street fights between factions of Red Guards.
Yu Bo, who splits his time between Chengdu and California, gave a demonstration with Dunlop that involved his famous set of 16 cold vegetable appetizers — he had converted basically the entire backstage of the Million Dollar Theatre into a prep area — and a demonstration of his technique.
In Chengdu one afternoon, I spent time with Zhang Jingyan, a fifty-six-year-old retired art-history professor who is in analysis and is studying psychotherapy.
At the same time, in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and other cities, clusters of frustrated artists are in touch with the creative frontiers in New York or Berlin and stage brief exhibitions or guerrilla performances in private.
And there's apparently promise of more: Uber said its volume in second city Mianyang, where it launched in November, is forty-times higher than Chengdu was at that stage of launch.
The blast, on Foxconn's Chengdu campus, occurred about 7 p.m. local time on Friday, Edmund Ding, a company spokesman, wrote in an e-mail.
Just outside the shrine gate is Chengdu's Tibetan quarter, which at the time of my visit was locked down by riot police.
Richard Buanguan, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, said Wednesday, "As a matter of policy we never comment on reported requests for asylum". Buanguan said that at no time was the consulate in Chengdu under threat.
