NYTimes.com Article: A Chinese man seeks justice, clad in the armor of persistence

Pursuing the issue of corruption in China, Paul Simon calls our attention to the article by Chris Buckley in the New York Times of March 11, 2002. It begins:

"Yu Baozhong crept into Beijing with a bundle of petitions and documents, harboring a dim hope of exposing the corruption of village officials to China's legislators, gathered here for their annual meeting. But he was also scared, jumpily scanning the streets for officials from his home province of Shandong who might bundle him away before anyone heard his account of how lawless party officials have ousted and jailed elected village leaders there. Like Mr. Yu, thousands of petitioners try to make their way to Beijing while the National People's Congress meets, hoping for redress against unresolved complaints. They must contend with a nationwide dragnet of police officers and officials whose job is to protect the capital's image of untroubled stability, especially while the country's legislators are on show".

Ronald Hilton - 3/11/02