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Wed 10 Oct 2009It may be a 'cold day in hell' when the Yellow river runs clear but China hopes
LETTER FROM ZHENZHOU:THE CRADLE of Chinese civilisation, the Yellow river, does not so much flow as ooze, making its muddy way across the north of this vast country, regularly flooding to disastrous effect, earning it the blighted monicker – China’s Sorrow, writes CLIFFORD COONAN
Viewed up close, the river doesn’t appear to move at all, it’s like a glutinous spill of yellow mud, but this sclerotic waterway is a central channel running deep through the Chinese consciousness.
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