Word: discontentment
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Discontent and protest are on the rise across China. Zhou Yongkang, China's Minister of Public Security, reported recently that in 2004 there were 74,000 "mass incidents"?demonstrations, riots and other acts of civil disobedience. That's an average of 200 a day; a worrisome number for China's...
The short answer, say Chinese officials, is the divide between rich and poor, and especially the growing unhappiness among farmers and other peasants who have been left behind by China's rapid economic development. But this is only a partial explanation. Rather than poverty, it is the farmers' sense of...
Council members said at the time that they hoped to discuss with the Corporation the sources of Faculty discontent with Summers and to address concerns that the Corporation was deaf to complaints of the Faculty.
“It’s quite perplexing and distressing to read in the media...that the Corporation do not even know that the Faculty are disgruntled or discontent,” Assistant Professor of Sociology Prudence L. Carter, a member of the Council last year, told The Crimson...
Sure, there are times I miss the frat parties, friends whose fashion I understand, and of course the sun. But in general, I am happy with my decision to transfer to Harvard. It is suprising, then, how often I hear students griping about the many horrid aspects of their undergraduate...