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wanted a security guard, she says, "Tang was polite, but he said his health wasn't good." He said no to a crossing guard's job, telling her "he'd have to bake in the sun and stand on his feet all day." "Tang didn't want to lose face by doing menial work," says a former neighbor.

Though tall and neatly dressed, Tang was otherwise nondescript. But people remember his extravagant taste in cigarettes. His brand, Zhonghua, was a favorite of party cadres and other elites in the old days. They usually go for about $7 a pack,distractions in the West, but not in China." As Tang's money problems grew, he gambled almost every day.
Wenjun didn't seem interested in hard work either. In May 2007, he and a few friends visited a bathhouse in northern Hangzhou—the kind of place where you can nearly twice the price of ordinary smokes. Tang lived on noodles at 75 cents a bowl and spent most of his waking hours playing cards or mah-jongg until late at night, near his old apartment on Peace and Street. Gambling is one of the very few escapes for depressed or anxious people in China, says psychologist Wei: "There are many