标题: Nationalization of Oil Fields in Shaanxi [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 8-8-2012 14:40 标题: Nationalization of Oil Fields in Shaanxi 本帖最后由 choi 于 8-8-2012 14:47 编辑
The perils of private enterprise | There Was Blood; In rural China, a private oil boom became a state-owned one. Economist, Aug 4, 2012 http://www.economist.com/node/21559950
("In all, local governments in Shaanxi nationalised about 4,000 wells worth perhaps $850m in those days, when oil was still less than $40 a barrel (it is easily more than twice that today)"
* ECO中文网 is Economist's online Chinese edition.
(b) Jinbian county, Shaanxi 陕西省榆林市 靖边县
Yulin, Shaanxi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulin,_Shaanxi(section 4 Administration)
(c) The article says, "What happened next [in Jingbian] has shads of 'There Will Be Blood,' a Hollywood film about the ruthless quest for oil fortunes in turn-of-the-19th-century America."
* Wrong, not "turn-of-the-19th-century," but "20th."
* this is apparent from the movie There Will Be Blood http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Be_Blood
(a 2007 film; loosely based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil!; tells the story of a gold miner-turned-oilman on a ruthless quest for wealth during Southern California's oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries)
* Most important, oil drilling did not exist in "turn-of-the-19th-century." See petroneum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum
(Edwin Drake's 1859 well near Titusville, Pennsylvania, is popularly considered the first modern well. Drake's well is probably singled out because it was drilled, not dug; because it used a steam engine; because there was a company associated with it; and because it touched off a major boom [Pennsylvania oil rush, 1859-1870])
(d) Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum (Group) Corp Ltd 陕西延长石油（集团）有限责任公司 http://english.sxycpc.com/
(e) The article mentions “Yanchang’s yellow and red nodding donkeys.”
pumpjack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpjack
(also called nodding donkey, among other names)
(f) FENG Xiaoyuan 冯 孝元
FENG Bingxian 冯 秉先
WANG Shijun 王 世军
WANG Zhihua 王 志华
(g)
* The “hardscrabble” in a hardscrabble oil boom” is an adjective that means”marked by poverty <a hardscrabble cotton town> <a hardscrabble childhood>.” http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hardscrabble
* hardscrabble. Online Etymology Dictionary, undated http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hardscrabble
(“(adj) 1804, US colloquial, the name of an imaginary barren place "where a livelihood may be obtained only under great hardship and difficulty;" from hard + scrabble. First recorded in journals of Lewis and Clark. Perhaps the original notion is "vigorous effort made under great stress," though this sense is recorded slightly later (1812)”)
(i) The article observes, "Local officials made good too. Wang Zhihua is now a Yanchang executive.
make good (vi): "SUCCEED" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make
(j) The article at last states, "The authorities in neighbouring Shanxi province used the same arguments in 2009, when they shut down the mines of coal bosses who had refused to sell out to state-owned companies at cut-rate prices."