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...days of mere groveling seem to be over. For the past three weeks, crowds of disgruntled workers swelling up to 30,000 have gathered outside City Hall, demanding jobs and pensions, carrying posters of Chairman Mao, China's patron saint of workers, and banners reading "The government has humiliated the people!" In the nearby province of Heilongjiang, simultaneous and similarly large worker protests occurred at the Daqing oil fields, which schoolchildren still study as the pinnacle of Chinese engineering and Maoist cradle-to-grave security. In both spots, workers were peeved, genuinely needy of some economic relief?and, most surprising...
...Square denouncing county officials. In the months that followed, she collected signatures and fingerprints from a thousand villagers demanding the police chief's impeachment. "People kept asking me to represent them," she says while thumbing the petition in her sparsely furnished living room, decorated with a poster of Chairman Mao. "I never wanted to be a leader. But by then I didn't fear death...
...satisfied with his scoop that a liberal Harvard professor of constitutional law would agree to torture. Indeed, they had quite an amiable chat, as though Dershowitz had uttered a seminal thought that had not been thought previously or put into practice by Caligula, Torquemada, Hitler, Stalin and Mao...
...education through labor. Their crime: parents labeled as enemies of the people. The nameless protagonist is the son of doctors, while Luo's father is an eminent dentist who threatened national security by revealing a state secret: in a moment of weakness he boasted he had once fit Mao Zedong with new teeth...
...never falter. At their first meeting with the village headman, an ex-opium farmer turned communist cadre, the narrator's violin is adjudged a stupid and bourgeois city toy. To prove differently he plays a Mozart sonata. "What's it called?" challenges the headman. Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao is Luo's politically correct and resourceful - if grossly inaccurate - response...