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...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...
...first year in office. The most common grievances involve corrupt local officials, land seized by authorities and developers to fuel China's property boom, unpaid wages from cash-strapped state-owned enterprises, and industrial accidents at unregulated private factories. Some cases are doubtless spurious, but most aren't. Even Zhou Zhanshun, head of the State Letters and Visits Bureau, admitted to the state-run Xinhua News Agency in January that 80% of the complaints are reasonable...
...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...
Other acts included a Beijing Opera aria performed by Amy G. Zhou ’07, the Chunsa Dance Troupe’s fan dance and the Traditional Dance Troupe’s ribbon dance...