At this time I had already come out of the little border town to Beijing as a university student.

His term in office was often dubbed the New Frontier since it was an era of change.

People who settle down and build a life in the frontier tend to be more individualistic, even if they started out with more interdependent values.

Besides, the situation in theborder regions is more complicated, because if things go wrong there, it becomes more than a poverty problem. That’s why policy leaned towardthem.

EVEN WHERE China's borders are secure, the country's very shape makes it appear as though it is dangerously incomplete--as if parts of an original Greater China had been removed.