Genhe

Erdon nodded excitedly. 'It is true!' he vowed. 'They dropped from airplanes. All the way from Keno to Hailaerh. Fully armed!'[…] Although these rumours gave a grossly exaggerated account of how Luce and he landed, and the area from Kenho to Hailaerh was too far north for anyone to travel from there to here even on horseback in a single day, nonetheless they proved that people had seen them drop.

[1969, Simon Harvester, chapter 9, in Nameless Road, New York: Walker and Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 102

A young Chinese woman has won praise on mainland social media for the manner in which she has coped with family pressure to marry. The outpouring of online plaudits came after the 24-year-old woman from Genhe city in northern China’s Inner Mongolia posted a video online on January 24 of herself chatting with her mother and other older relatives. In the video – which has been viewed nearly 2 million times – a female relative of the woman can be heard raising her voice and saying to her. “It is best for you to stay here and take the civil service exam in Genhe. Why do you want to leave? You should stay at home. It is quite normal for you to be a civil servant and get married in your hometown.”

2023 January 31, Yuanyue Dang, “‘More at peace in a coffin’: 2 million marvel at Chinese woman who tells nagging relatives she would rather be dead than in a boring, steady job”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2023, People & Culture