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Border Crossing: Hong Kong’s ‘Mailbag Rush’ and China’s Great Famine

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 Chapel Hill

During the Cold War, when the border between British Hong Kong and Communist China was known as the “bamboo curtain,” the boundary between Hong Kong’s New Territories and China’s Bao’an County—today’s Shenzhen—was seen as a closed frontier.  Yet the everyday … Read more

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