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"Like so many things in China, it feels like a contradiction: everything has changed; nothing has changed."

Fox news竟不用翻墙，太令人意外了！

“This is the power of leaderless collective action in China: it is not that no one initiates it, it is that it appears that no one does.”

看到何伟的双胞胎女儿们在成都实验小学被要求用尺子画数学符号觉得特别心疼。我出生在那里也就算了（没得选）明知中国的现况，还让孩子们陷入那样的境地，是不是对孩子们太残忍，欺负她们无法自主做出选择。作为父母，也许是为了更好的观察和创作，剥夺了孩子的选择权，把孩子们扔进试验场，自己写观察日记，太残忍了。孩子们本可以不必遭受这些规训的。

"For a returning teacher, this was a mystery: How could a country experience so much social, economic, and educational change, while the politics remained stagnant or even regressive?"