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 ›