Kafka in Beijing
At Foreign Policy, John Garnaut and Sanghee Liu examine the case of Long Meiyi, the daughter of a Guizhou official, and her unsuccessful years-long campaign for justice after an alleged rape.
In July 2011, a Hong Kong newsmagazine published the story of a Chinese vice mayor desperate enough to petit ...
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Life is indeed often Kafkaesque under China’s one-party authoritarian governmental system. Especially ironic that a stability-maintenance Party official would come to a partial realization of this through the red-tape travails of his daughter after she suffered rape.