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...communist soldiers through the haze of a village smudge pot. Now a firm member of the middle class, and so staunchly nationalist that he insists on his daughter marrying a policeman in spite of her obvious unhappiness, he arrives in the city just as an anti-government student protest breaks out. Shouting invectives at the students, he sees his son dragged off through the tear gas by the authorities. O wisely provides no obvious resolution to this estrangement of generations, simply ending with, "The time for his daughter's Engagement came and went as he continued to retch helplessly...
...their trek to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, they do so at a time when the mistrust of authority?and an increasingly vocal disrespect for it?has gone global. Deference is dead, replaced by sniping, cynicism and an outpouring of open protest. Thanks to the Internet, every individual's gripe can now be amplified and diffused to a mass audience, whether the gripers are retired Americans whose pension benefits have been slashed or Chinese peasants who have lost their farmland to the nation's torrid industrialization. A recent WEF poll of more than...
...house shouldn't continue to award itself when the folks on the lower end of the ladder suffer," says C. William Jones, a retired telephone-company worker in Easton, Maryland, who was so incensed about his pension and health-care benefits being cut that he helped start a protest group called BellTel Retirees. It now has more than 100,000 members and mainly communicates online...
...million Chinese peasants, he left his rural roots behind for a job in the big city. His younger sibling stayed in the family's hometown, the hamlet of Dongzhou in southern China's Guangdong province. In early December, when Lin returned for a visit, the brothers joined a protest against a nearby power-station project. Locals claim the plant is being built on village rice paddies sold by municipal officials to the power company without proper compensation to the villagers. Moreover, the project involved filling in most of a lake that had supported generations of Dongzhou fishermen. The protest ended...
...Last week, three advisory board members of the Bruin Alumni Association (BAA), including Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom, resigned from their posts in protest of the new measures, which Thernstrom described as “over the line...