The Washington Post, January 8th, 1989
Hundreds of passengers cram the benches, the floor and the waiting hall of Beijing's central station. For more than an hour, they have been checking, packing and repacking their bags and boxes of food, their bottles of beer and flagons of Maotai. As soon as they discover a tad more space in their bulging sacks, they're off again to buy more dim sum, paste-filled buns, pink cakes with jade green icing, candy bars in fluorescent wrappers, jars of fruits and pickles. You'd think they were embarking on a month-long migration to the wilds of beyond, where starvation is rampant and drought assured. ...
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