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Boom Town originally, a western town that prospered suddenly, usually because of gold mines nearby. [Am. Hist.: Misc.] See : Wild West |
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Morn packed sandwiches in a cooler, and the whole family drove off into the blue yonder, even if it wasn't too wild, for a two-week trip to some overcrowded summertime boom town. In the present, we follow the careers of some of his former students--one a factory worker in the new southern boom town of Shenzhen, two others starting out as teachers--and of a man Hessler calls Polat, a disaffected Uighur from Xinjiang in the far west, living by his wits in Beijing's thriving black market, later taking off for an uncertain life in the United States. It's an old-fashioned boom town, in every sense of the word. |
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