All through 2005, the Year of the Rooster in the Chinese calendar, China was
rocked by a series of rebellions: peasant revolts, religious uprising, workers
strikes, petitions by democratic activists and environmental movements. As China
opens up to the world, her people are becoming more aware, especially with the
Internet, and they are rebelling against the tyranny of the Communist Party.
More and more Chinese are getting disenchanted with the growing injustice,
corrupt officials, censorship, permanent surveillance, propaganda and repression
of the system. Both the educated classes and the one billion peasants who have
been bypassed by Party driven industrialization are protesting loudly.
The author spent the Year