Virtual China '98

Virtual China 1998

Mrs. Crouch's Biking Group

Writers: Mark Dayton and Henry Guo

Date: 19 April, 1998

Location: China Foreign Merchants Hotel (Longshan, China)

Type of Writing: Interview of a Security Guard

We interviewed a security guard at the China Foreign Merchants Hotel, built in 1993. He is forty-nine years old and his name is Sui Tia Chia. There are five people in his family, two daughters, one son, a wife and himself. His eldest daughter is twenty years, his second daughter is eighteen, and his son is sixteen. He lives in the Jin Pu area. He lives in a village called Fong Guan Chuan. The village name has no special meaning. That village has about three hundred people. His house is about three kilometers away. He bikes to work every day. His house is about one hundred square meters, which is average in size for this area. He owns two pigs and some rice land outside his village. He works eight hours per day. He works 26 days per month He used to work in the hotel across the road called San Mo Tia Du Jia Chuan that was build in 1971. He altogether worked at both hotels for nine years. For pleasure, he plays shuffleboard and Ping-Pong. He also likes to feed the pigs and help around his house. Sometimes after work, he sings Karaoke. He used to smoke, but now he has quit. He is proud to have been able to quit. He has visited Shenzhen, Guilin and Duo Hai, which is a small city in this region.

This concludes our interview with an average Chinese security guard living in a rural area of Guangdong Province.

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