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When Li Guanqing set off on the first of his 150 pilgrimages to Beijing, he possessed a quiet conviction that justice would be done. It was 1980, and Li's father had been stabbed to death under mysterious circumstances in the family's eastern home province of Shandong. Suspecting that local village chiefs whom Li's father had criticized were to blame, and unable to get any help from police, Li, then 21, gathered his meager life savings and trekked from Shandong to the capital. There, he began endlessly ferrying documents from one government agency to another, hoping each official...
...Some of the greatest pressure for change comes not from angry victims of police abuse but from rank-and-file officers, many of whom carry out their duties faithfully under difficult circumstances. A recent year-long internal police study conducted in Shandong province showed that beat cops work an average of 11 hours a day, with only one day off every three weeks. They're often called upon for unlikely duties, such as collecting fines from delinquent taxpayers and from violators of the one-child policy. And to top it off, they're woefully paid: salaries average...
...movie epic or a top-rated, multigenerational series on a Hong Kong TV channel. Traces also has a diamond-in-the-rough star: Jackie's father. A jaunty, salty gent, still vigorous in his mid-80s, Charles carries the narrative. He was born as Fang Daolong in 1915 in Shandong province. A disorderly kid ("I was a real brat"), he became an orderly to a KMT general?until he accidentally shot a loaded gun and was cashiered. He had a nice scam fencing linen in Nanjing; then the Japanese took control of China. Charles was jailed and forced to watch...
...sons, Lily her daughters. Likewise, Charles and Lily moved to Australia in 1962, leaving Jackie at school in Hong Kong. (As husband to retired film star Lin Fengjiao, Jackie has repeated the pattern, often deserting her and their son to shoot movies.) Finally, Charles reunited his family in Shandong?all but Jackie, who has yet to meet his brothers...
Although at first Chung, a middle-aged woman originally from Taiwan, refuses to say where the factories are located, she eventually reveals that there are several company factories located in both Shandong and Zhejiang provinces...