Our streets are full of a general sloshiness that lingers and won't go away, as if a glacier is deicing to the north.

A typical example was that of Shantou Special District in Kwangtung where in “full implementation” of party policies all the cadres from the brigades had been sent to the “front line of production” to lead the masses in spring planting and a total labour force of 2.42 million for the whole district, representing 81 per cent of its rural labour force, was mobilized for the purpose.

His gray and black hair on his head swashed in the dirty water around what used to be his face.

Thus, biculturals do not necessarily have a transcultural identity.