"The income gap in China is of course very big now, but the distribution system is not solely to be blamed. The inequality now is caused by the inequality at the starting point. Children of ordinary backgrounds have never enjoyed equal rights by any measure as their wealthier counterparts since the moment they were born." more ›

Can't an officer of the law relax and get his shoes shined without the entire weibosphere getting up in arms about it? A policeman from the Fuzhou city of Nanping (南平) recently received a shoe-shining while sticking his feet out of his police vehicle in the Zhejiang city of Quzhou (衢州). more ›

This a rough translation of Fan Gui's response to Sun Liping's essay (which we wrote about here): 1. Regarding Sun's first point, I believe that he has ignored a very crucial fact—the growing gap between rich and poor. 20% of the population controls 80% of the wealth, how can you say that such a status quo has "flexibility"? While Professor Sun divides the population into urban and rural, does he mean that the urban poor... more ›