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...Those left in the dark are trying to cope as best as they can. Zhou Zhiliang, production-line manager for a 1,400-employee company that makes scaffolding for oil wells, says his factory is being supplied with only enough electricity for three days of work a week. To compensate, the company bought a diesel generator, a purchase repeated by so many factories across the country recently that diesel prices have been driven higher. Zhou says the cost of the generator and the fuel has eaten up the firm's profits. Still, production cannot stop. "We have to keep...
...siblings have been the Blodgett Artists in Residence at Harvard. The quartet will be performing this Friday as part of a year-long series of performances. The program includes Janacek’s Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata;” a selection of music by Zhou Long, Chen Yi and Ge Ganru; Tchaikovsky’s Quartet No. 1 in D, Op.11. Tickets free, limit two per person. 8 p.m. Paine Hall...
...paper chase is maddeningly ineffective. Zhou Mingqin, a 75-year-old woman from Henan province, rode on the back of a tricycle-wagon pedaled by her son for the 600-km trip to Beijing. She wants an investigation into the deaths of three family members, whom she claims were killed for being too inquisitive about missing disaster-relief funds granted to her village after a devastating hailstorm. In August 2002, Zhou says she walked into the civil-affairs sector of the Henan Provincial People's Court to deliver her petition, only to have a policeman punch her in the face...
...even in the unlikely event that a petition office rules in favor of a complainant, it has no legal power to enforce its decision. It just passes on a recommendation to the relevant body, usually the same local government that denied the petitioner justice in the first place. In Zhou's case, Henan officials have now been alerted to her troublesome complaints. Scared to go home for fear of retribution and uncertain that Beijing officials will do anything more to help, she is stuck in limbo. All she can do, like thousands of others, is stay and wait...
...Still, petitioners continue to stream into the capital. Few can match the dedication of Yu Zhengyang, a sanitation worker from the northeastern province of Heilongjiang. In the winter of 1997, says Yu, his wife, Zhou Hongxia, disappeared after being summoned to a provincial police station in Xicheng. A few months later, Yu recounts, her body was found in a latrine pit just 15 m from the police headquarters. The police autopsy report ruled her death a suicide, but Yu says that doesn't explain why her body was covered in bruises and lacerations. Yu was particularly alarmed when police repeatedly...