Meaning of Gushi | Babel Free

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A county of Xinyang, Henan, China.

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“The provenance of ant nose money is widely spread⟳. The best known finds are those made at the Ch’i-ssŭ-li village in Ku-shih County in southeastern Honan.⁸¹”

“In certain places, the Nien succeeded in entirely supplanting the regularly constituted government authority. The result⟳ could actually be a considerable improvement for some of the local residents. In Honan’s Ku-shih County, for example, poor people seeking a settlement of their problems flocked to the local Nien chieftain for help⟳.”

“In Gushi County in the southern province of Henan, for example, returning workers have⟳ been ordered by the government into quarantine centers at empty schoolhouses and on the grounds of bankrupt factories.[…] Gushi authorities also defended a program⟳ to charge migrants for checkups despite a central government regulation promising free health care for SARS patients. "We only take⟳ suspected patients to our ward for isolation and observation," said a health official in Gushi who identified himself only as Zhang.”

“Here in Henan’s rural Gushi County, only 73,000 of 1.4 million farmers fall⟳ below the official poverty level of $94 a year, which is supposed to be enough to cover⟳ basic needs, including maintaining a daily diet of 2,000 calories.”

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