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...Zhou Shuguang's brief but spectacular career as China's first roving citizen reporter on the Internet ended abruptly last December after he was punched in the throat by an angry policeman in the northeastern city of Shenyang. Zhou's offense: investigating a bizarre pyramid scheme involving ants and aphrodisiacs. The assault took place during a short stint in jail, after which plainclothes cops escorted Zhou to the airport and put him on a plane home, with dire warnings about what would happen to him if he returned. The small, bespectacled 26-year-old took heed. "I will keep silent...
...Thus ended a nine-month adventure during which the onetime vegetable seller from a small village in Hunan province had vaulted to Internet stardom as a kind of digital knight errant; his blog, Zhou Shuguang's Golden Age, publicized the plight of the victims of China's frantic economic boom. At the peak of its fame, the blog drew 20,000 readers a day. Zhou, who called himself Zola after the 19th century French writer and activist, had hoped to inspire some of the country's 47 million other bloggers to join him in the good fight, roaming the country...
...From the beginning, Zhou knew he risked running up against the authorities, who aim to exercise as strict a control over China's rapidly expanding virtual universe as they do over their citizens' everyday lives in the real world. (Any day soon, China will surpass the U.S. as the nation with the largest number of people online.) But because so much of the Internet is ungovernable, it is the freest public space in the country, a place where individuals like Zhou constantly push the limits of permissible activity...
Cuomo, whose office did not respond to repeated requests for comment, previously led an extensive investigation of the student loan industry that forced policy changes both at universities and within the lending industry. —Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...sign of increasing religious freedom." Several Chinese have recently been arrested for illegally bringing Bibles into the country, Fu points out. On Nov. 28, police raided the house of Beijing bookstore owner Shi Weihan, confiscating Bibles and other religious publications and placing him under detention. And Zhou Heng, a businessman and leader of an underground church in China's western Xinjiang region, was arrested in August for receiving three tons of Bibles from South Korea...