Word: meitanba
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Dates: during 2008-2008
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Zhou Shuguang wanted to visit his mother. Normally, that wouldn't be a problem for the 28-year-old vegetable seller, blogger and self-described occasional "citizen reporter." He'd jump on a bus and ride the twenty kilometers from Meitanba, the village deep in rural central China where he lives, to his mother's place. But Zhou, who sometimes highlights cases on his blog that pit ordinary citizens against local government authorities, hadn't considered one vital fact: the Olympic Games being held in Beijing, some 1000 kilometers away. Soon after he arrived at his parents house...
...another interview; he spent two days and a long, long night in jail (that's when he was punched after arguing with one of his interrogators). Upon hearing of Zhou's retirement, reader Fang Qiangqiang (a screen name) tried to dissuade Zhou from returning to his hometown in Meitanba, Hunan province: "It's not a good idea to go back home because what you can give people by selling vegetables is not comparable to what you are giving people by what you are doing...
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