China Beat Archive
Date of this Version
2011
Document Type
Article
Citation
2011 Dec 23 in The China Beat http://www.thechinabeat.org/
Abstract
The pigs were being slaughtered in the streets when the news of Kim Jong Il’s death arrived in Dachuan, a small logging village in the mountains of western Sichuan province. Over the immense and extended cacophony of the blood-letting, the retired head of the local bank explained, with a bit of apologetic joy, that the villagers were getting ready for Spring Festival, then turned back to the news from Pyongyang, shaking his head at the retrograde tendencies of China’s Korean socialist brothers.
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Copyright 2011 Adam Cathcart