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...that often treats truth as a state secret, the 33-year-old cameraman relies as much on stealth as stagecraft. For his 2002 documentary, To Live is Better Than To Die, a stark portrayal of a family destroyed by AIDS, he sneaked into the village of Wenlou in central Henan province dressed as a peasant, creeping through cornfields in the dead of night with his equipment stashed in a fertilizer bag. That was the only way he could elude police in order to film the effects of one of the mainland's biggest health scandals: the transmission...
...regular murder cases. But they're way behind when it comes to serial killings, a seemingly universal form of evil that flourishes most in societies under stress. The inexperience of Chinese investigators in this field was vividly exposed by a gang of four murderers in the central province of Henan who evaded capture for months in 2000. Their modus operandi was to break into homes using battering rams. Once inside, they killed the inhabitants, frequently castrating male victims with cleavers. They left behind calling cards: cloth masks with eye holes burned out by cigarettes. But the gang's deadly spree...
...ordered society into another chaotic and corrupt developing country. Across northern China, for example, local officials are ignoring a more forgiving tax code championed by Beijing and instead are forcing peasants to pay exorbitant taxes on land that ceased to be fertile years ago. In other places such as Henan, Fujian and Gansu provinces, local bosses have taken central government funds for combating drugs, human smuggling and HIV, and used them to build palatial homes...
...Meanwhile, irate citizens across the country continue to gather by the thousands to protest local corruption. Demonstrations in Henan and Liaoning provinces fizzled after organizers were given lengthy jail sentences. But collective outrage could galvanize a violent and destabilizing force. "Instead of worrying about whether Hu is going to rule or Jiang is going to rule," says a former editorial writer for the official People's Daily, "China's leaders should be trying to figure out how to control the abuses of all these local leaders." The ancient Chinese proverb: "The mountains are high and the Emperor is far away...
...life. In February 1999, he returned home to visit his nine-year-old son. Unknown assailants savagely beat him, fracturing his skull with steel bars and plunging knives into both legs. Today a jagged red scar encircles his head like a crown. That attack broke the labor movement in Henan. Today, just one factory in the province remains occupied by workers...