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noun
A traditional Chinese unit of length, 10 Chinese feet or 1/150 Chinese mile.
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As well as the processions and rituals, Zhang documents the preparations – girls dressing up and applying their dramatic makeup – and the funfairs and stalls that spring up around the event.
These limits range from conservative loan-to-deposit ratios to heavy reserve requirements and blacklists of overexposed borrowers, such as property developers or local governments.Where there is regulation, there is evasion, notes Mr Zhang.
It was a low-cost decision: Gongyi is one of Henan's wealthiest areas and therefore few of its farmers were attracted by the blood-selling scheme.Mr Wen's concern has done little to help Mr Zhang.
Nine Dragons Paper, which she founded with her husband in 1995, is now one of the world's largest paper recyclers.The emerging world is home to many businesswomen like Ms Zhang.
Another popular choice, he says, is the Ministry of Personnel, which administers the civil-service test and arranges government employment.Jessica Zhang of Beijing Foreign Studies University, who applied for a job this year in the foreign ministry, says she found the multiple-choice general knowledge questions easier than she expected.
It also signified that Zhang, who hailed from a family with a Chinese nationalist past and was once seen as a subversive film-maker, had been welcomed into the fold of official Communist party approval.
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It is entirely understandable that Cannes should wish to reward Rooney Mara for her fiercely observed and controlled performance in Carol which really was excellent, though in my view less fine than Zhao Tao's magnificent contribution to Jia Zhang-ke's Chinese epic Mountains May Depart.
Two magnificent films by Zhang Yimou, Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern – which helped put modern Chinese cinema on the map – were trumped by since-forgotten Swiss and Italian titles in 1991 and 1992 respectively.
These are just three of the mysterious images in Shanxi, a hauntingly beautiful photobook by the Chinese photographer Zhang Xiao, which captures the age-old rituals of the annual lunar new year festival in the country's Shanxi province.
Shanxi by Zhang Xiao is available now, published by Little Big Man books.
"Zhang Yimou and [producer] Zhang Weiping talked about this as China's holocaust film," says Jonathan Landreth, a journalist based in Beijing.
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