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According to Steve Lin ’08, another one of “The Big Question” organizers, the most popular events in the series have attracted around 50 students each...
...pick topics that people can really draw upon from their personal experience,” Lin said. —Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at kmgray@fas.harvard.edu...
...Though Li has rarely returned to her homeland since her departure a decade ago, the best stories in this volume, written in her flawlessly pure and limpid prose, fully capture China's wrenching social changes. In "Extra," Granny Lin finds she has been "honorably retired" from her state-owned garment factory?which means the plant has gone bankrupt and Lin won't be getting her pension. She's lucky enough to find a new job as a maid at one of the posh new private schools sprouting outside Beijing, but it's not long before Lin discovers...
...Although his fate was worse than most, Lin was one of millions of Chinese peasants losing faith in the ability of local governments to improve their lives. Over the past two decades, vast swathes of Chinese farmland have been converted into the factories, highways and power plants that are fueling the country's economic growth. But many farmers complain that they have not been adequately compensated for losing land, sometimes because corrupt local officials have pocketed the money. In Guangdong alone, two million farmers have been displaced by development, according to provincial statistics. These land seizures were...
...plant construction, residents have been informed, will proceed. Nevertheless, some locals hold out hope that Beijing, which earlier this month targeted rural graft as one of its biggest priorities for 2006, will clean up the mess. "If only the central government knew the truth, they would help us," says Lin's brother. "Because if they don't help, then there's nowhere we can go to seek justice...