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...naive to think that any conflict with Western or Christian ethics is a result of the Communist Party. The major contribution of the Communist Party to Chinese culture is an organized platform that has the ability to enforce opinions. For millenniums, Chinese culture has revered power and ignored the plight of the underdog. The Chinese respect strength, but if threatened, will retaliate with even greater strength. They will not accept help or surrender their values. David Cherbonnier Singapore...
...peasants' plight turned into a civil-rights cause in Beijing after an underground DVD depicting the Ansai county crackdown began circulating in the capital. Zhu Jiuhu, one of China's most prominent defense attorneys, took up the cause in May when he tried to lodge a lawsuit against the Shaanxi government on behalf of drillers and investors. The suit was rejected by a provincial court on grounds that the evidence presented was "not objective." About two months ago, when Zhu visited the province to meet with peasants to prepare an appeal, police arrested him for "disturbing social order." As with...
Over several weeks, he attempts to ameliorate his plight by obsessive reading and rereading—reproducing various images for his readers as if these sufficed to make the web of allusions hanging in his past alive...
...patients were left to fend for themselves. Writing to government officials didn't do much good. It is sad to be an Indian and be affected by the denial of our officials in dealing with AIDS. We need to respond to this terrible epidemic. I am frustrated by the plight of my fellow countrymen who are unable to get the AIDS drugs they are entitled to. John Lall New Delhi...
Only one story ventures into the supernatural. The endpiece, The Green Road to Quephanda, speaks directly of the plight of the genre writer who cannot get himself taken seriously. The central character is a fantasist who keeps publishing to small sales and critical silence. Unable to bear the inattention any longer, he commits suicide, and in that moment his fantasy world is transferred to the mind of one previously condescending friend. Or, as Rendell puts it in the story's poignant final lines, which perhaps should be read as her own cri de coeur, "He reached his audience, he reached...