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Eyeing the Neighbors With Distrust in Asia

Justin Mitchell
Dec 05, 2006
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Bopping -- although staggering like an overloaded pack mule is probably a more apt description -- frequently back and forth between Hong Kong and Shenzhen is almost always a study in contrasts, though not always the ones espoused by residents of either city, many of whom rely on crude, broad-brush stereotypes, urban myths and hearsay rather than first h…

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