Henan

In rural Henan, Pai meets the coal dealer Da Cai, one of five brothers, all but the youngest of whom left their native village.

Born in rural Henan province in eastern China, Chen was the son of migrant workers.

No fewer than 19 similar cases took place last year in the same small township in Henan.

When Wu, as minister of pubic health, went to Henan on an official visit, she asked to talk to Gao.

Then there is the case of Dr. Gao Yaojie, a Chinese AIDS activist in Zhengzhou, Henan Province.

The young generation joined Margaret Henan in laughing at them, but the old crones continued to shake their heads.

And the more I learned of Margaret Henan in the weeks that followed the more mysteriously remote she became.

Katie was the last and eleventh, and Margaret Henan, at thirty-five, ceased from her exertions.

Yet it was from her I learned that evening that Margaret Henan had once been one of the island belles.

Herself the daughter of a well-to-do farmer, she had married Thomas Henan, equally well-to-do.