torsdag 10. august 2017

One Man, One Road: A Funny Tale of Civic Protest in China


The following is a funny but inspiring, lively but serious, absurd but bold story happening in China. It involves no schemes nor high level politics, yet it illustrates a part of China — that complicated and unpredictable country — with a somewhat happy ending. It shows that the China’s millennials are participating in civic engagement in their own way — a more humorous, less confrontational way compared to their predecessors. Yet, this conscious civic engagement might be a force that pushes the tightly state-controlled society toward a more open and autonomous one.