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sichuan
proper noun
A province of central China.
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Add a little ground roasted sichuan pepper for a zesty tingle on the lips, and sesame paste for a more substantial sauce.
Until recently, it was hard to find consistently zingy Sichuan pepper in the UK, but Tom Alcott and Pete Gibbons are doing their best to change that.
Real Chinese food does not swim in sweet sauces, as the ersatz kind tends to; it is dry and often spicy, perhaps flecked with chilies or numbing Sichuan pepper.
In the build-up to the games, Sichuan officials tried to silence angry parents.
"Twitter is the canary in the news coalmine," wrote Jeff Jarvis, a new-media savant, after the service beat mainstream media to news about the earthquake that struck China's Sichuan province in May 2008.But there are plenty of other examples.
The violence has so far been limited to Tibetan-dominated areas of Sichuan province, to the east of Tibet proper (see map).
According to a website produced by Tibetan exiles, Kunchok Phelgye, a 24-year-old monk, set himself on fire on December 8th, near Kirti monastery in the Chinese province of Sichuan.
In 2006 Chinese and British scientists led by Michael Bruford of Cardiff University and Wei Fuwen of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published research on droppings found at Wanglang reserve in Sichuan.
In 1998 he had taken a TV crew to film illegal logging in the wild forests of Sichuan outside the city; the film was a sensation, and logging was banned.
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Fan once worked for the Chengdu Urban Rivers Association (CURA), an NGO that helps to raise awareness of environmental issues in the region and who helped to develop an eco-farm in Anlong village in Sichuan province.
The latest claim came after the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader offered prayers for eight monks and a nun who have set themselves on fire to protest against Chinese rule in Tibetan parts of Sichuan province.
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