Caijing reports on the roadside vendor who was sentenced to death for killing a member of the “urban management team” (chengguan):
Unlicensed sausage vendor Cui Yingjie was on his knees, begging Beijing street inspectors during a routine raid last August to let him keep his cooker-equipped tricycle cart. When they refused, Cui fatally stabbed an inspector.
Now, as Cui awaits execution, China is confronting the social dilemma embodied by the widely publicized case of a poor villager who migrated to a city for an elusive piece of the country’s pie of mainly urban wealth. [Full text]
