Chapter 11: ‘Time to lay down the law’ At a conference attended by prefecture and county officials on April 21, the joint work team gave a progress report to prefecture commissioner Xu […]

Ying Xing March 22, 2005 Chapter 10: Baiyang 16 goes into battle With the dispute over the calcium-carbide factory now a thing of the past, the affected groups in Shanyang turned their […]

Ying Xing March 13, 2005   Chapter 9: Let them eat bread! On August 1, 1987, 200 peasants marched to the Dahe station, led by Tailor Wang, Jiang Youheng, Wu Qixian, Yao […]

Ying Xing March 9, 2005   Chapter 8: Good guys and bad apples “The top leaders in Beijing are our benefactors, the provincial leaders are like our family members, there are good […]

Ying Xing March 2, 2005   Chapter 7: The conflict heats up On October 28, 1984, the head of Shanyang township, Yang Yongquan, was riding his bike over the bridge leading to […]

Ying Xing February 22, 2005   Chapter 6: In search of an honest judge After the county and prefecture governments made it clear that local Shanyang cadres had not, in their view, […]

Ying Xing February 16, 2005 Chapter 5: Bending the rules “Many problems have been solved to date but there are still problems left over from history. There is therefore a need to […]

Ying Xing February 10, 2005 Chapter 4: A crowing rooster and the lonely ghosts A crowing rooster (jiao ji gong) refers to 1) a person who deliberately makes trouble or 2) a […]

Ying Xing January 26, 2005 Chapter 2: Down to the grassroots in Shanyang A huge rock lies across the heart of the river like a dragon, The sound of waves can be […]

Ying Xing January 20, 2005 Chapter 1: Leftover problems of the Dahe Dam “Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the state has allocated a great deal of money to […]