Romance, and Slow Recovery, in a Quake-Devastated Chinese County.

He lost his wife of 35 years when their home collapsed during the earthquake in May. She lost her husband of 20 years the same day in a cascade of debris at a construction site. They are distant relatives from the same town whose eyes still tear up when they talk about their dead spouses. But within months of the earthquake, which was the deadliest natural disaster to befall China in more than three decades, Jiang Zhongfu, 60, began courting Zhu Xiaoqiong, 42. Last month, he moved into Ms. Zhu's prefabricated housing cube in a refugee camp in these scarred hills. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]