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...equal measure as I read Hannah Beech's unsettling account of the Chinese government's persecution of legal activist Chen Guangcheng [Sept. 4]. Disgust threatened to turn to despair. What hope is there for individuals like Chen, outgunned and outnumbered? But then I recalled the words that novelist Lu Xun wrote 85 years ago, at the end of his short story My Old Home: "Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many...
...equal measure as I read Hannah Beech's unsettling account of the Chinese government's persecution of legal activist Chen Guangcheng [Sept. 4]. Disgust threatened to turn to despair. What hope is there for individuals like Chen, outgunned and outnumbered? But then I recalled the words that novelist Lu Xun wrote 85 years ago, at the end of his short story My Old Home: "Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many...
...Lu turned to see a tall, black trenchcoat-clad man with slicked-back hair and heavy black boots about 40 feet away...
...face was calm and expressionless," said Lu, 34. "He was looking forwardat the school and walking slowly...
...Lu sat frozen long enough to notice the man carried a one-and-a-half-foot machine gun while moving along a low brick wall that led to the college's main entrance. Lu and LeBleu abandoned their lunch and sped away. Lu dialled 911 at exactly...