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...million migrants already living in the cities, criminals and killers, too, have hit the road. In addition to detaining Ma, a native of Hunan province, police have in recent weeks held a man in Hebei province on suspicion of killing 65 people in four provinces, and another in Henan for allegedly murdering 17 boys. Cops, long reliant on heavy-handed monitoring of neighborhoods, struggle to maintain law and order amid China's increasing freedoms: the incidence of violent crime has risen 73% over the past five years. "Society now has blind spots that have become a heaven for killers," says...
...China's new anonymity might enable criminals to outwit even more sophisticated police work. The accused killer in Henan province, Huang Yong, reportedly picked up boys in Internet parlors in his rural county and brought them home before torturing and killing them. According to police, Huang even buried six bodies in his yard without attracting attention; he was caught only when one boy escaped. Police have so far resisted one obvious measure to fight crime: better public relations. They curtailed newspaper reporting on the growing number of missing boys until the killer had been apprehended, and they have ordered newspapers...
...like, well, a Chinese factory worker. But Xu manages to stay human in an increasingly inhuman world. The "blood merchant" of the title, he is willing to sell his plasma to keep his family fed and together?an eerily prescient scenario that evokes the recent real-life traumas in Henan province, where hundreds of thousands of peasants may have contracted HIV by selling their blood. Though Chronicle is at heart more hopeful than To Live, which sometimes reads like Chinese Beckett, the tragic necessity of sacrifice is never absent. The book's translator, Andrew Jones, compares its informal structure...
Underneath this sad little village in Henan province is the rich legacy of five millenniums of Chinese history. The nearby city of Luoyang was the capital of at least nine dynasties, and the fields of today's peasants are littered with imperial tombs. Many still hold impossibly valuable works of art buried centuries ago. Breaking into these tombs and stealing the national treasures they hold are illegal, of course. But the lure is too great for many, especially because one major haul, sold to a smuggler, can equal a year's farming income. "For kids here, tomb raiding is just...
...destitute farmers of central China, the allure of such plunder is hard to resist--but the reality of life as a tomb raider is less enticing. Feng, who asks to be identified only by his last name, recalls vividly the first time he descended into the crumbly earth of Henan province six years ago. In his village on the outskirts of Luoyang, robbing a tomb is similar to an initiation rite, and Feng, then 19, was filled with nervous excitement as he and a group of fellow raiders ambled into a local wheat field to see what they could...