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1997: Running a Bathhouse in Northeast China

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In 1997, when Northeast China was hit by massive layoffs, Lin Xiangnan, a young man who failed in his business in the south, returned to his hometown. But his parents opposed the idea, thinking running a bathhouse was an “unrespectable” trade, and his childhood friend even said it would lose money. With management skills from the south, he transformed the old bathhouse into a unique place with northern straightforwardness and southern attentiveness. Along the way, he mended his father’s old regret of giving up a bathhouse decades ago, met a girl who worked with him, and finally built his own small business in the tide of the times.

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