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Xiangtan (shyäng`tän`) or Siangtan (shyäng`tän`, syäng`–), city (1994 est. pop. 490,100), E central Hunan prov., China, on the Xiang River. Formerly an agricultural distribution center, it is now industrialized. Products include textiles, iron, steel, manganese ore, cement, and machine tools. The name sometimes appears as Hsiang-t'an. |
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He describes how how over a thousand of the jaded women of Xiangtan city in Hunan province, with no productive work (he says nastily) except embroidering flowers - unlike their sisters in Liuyang and Anhua who spun hemp or plucked tea-leaves - rushed off to see a theatrical performance, "struggling forward shoulder to shoulder like sheep being herded along. |
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