IF YOU want to know the latest fashion among elderly Japanese ladies, the place to go is Hefei.
He was dismissed from his job in Hefei, but brought back to the Beijing Observatory while his wife Li Shuxian, also a physicist, was given a job at Peking University, a traditional hotbed of student activism.
Several dozen founders of leading Chinese private firms gathered last month in the central city of Hefei for the Yabuli China Entrepreneurs' Forum.
But Hefei is in China.Japanese merchants have been discovering, forgetting and rediscovering China for centuries.
The Gu Kailai trial will take place in Hefei in Anhui province, although, as Donald Clarke, an American scholar, notes on his blog, there is nothing in China's criminal-procedure law to suggest that a court outside Chongqing should have jurisdiction.
But bilateral deals are more at risk.German projects in the pipeline in China include a €150m ($220m) tyre plant to be built by Continental in Hefei, and two joint-ventures being set up by Daimler to build vans and trucks.
IN MID-DECEMBER 1986 the atmosphere crackled with excitement on university campuses in the central Chinese city of Hefei.
And "if every one of those good words liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, human rights—has been called 'bourgeois', what on earth does that leave for us?"A red shift not observedIn 1986 his chirpy irreverence for party authority stoked student unrest not only in Hefei, but also in Shanghai and Beijing.
There, on the ground floor of a state-owned textile factory, the 300 workers of the Hefei Ziyou Fashion Company are putting the finishing touches to their autumn collection.
Proceedings began on August 9th in Hefei in China's Anhui province and were expected to last two days.
