花崗齋雜記

Jottings from the Granite Studio provides commentary, analysis, and opinion on China and Chinese history. It is written by Jeremiah Jenne, a PhD Candidate at a large public research university in Northern California. Currently, Jeremiah is in Beijing teaching history, doing archival research, and working on his dissertation.

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When the grasshopper plays and it’s the ant who suffers

Heartbreaking story out of rural China via the LA Times: poor farmers defrauded in a pyramid scam involving–would you believe it–ants. Somewhere, a grasshopper is smiling a little too smugly.
The story illustrates the get-rich-now mentality here, the constant search for a new angle by those struggling to make a go of it with the communist [...]

January 12th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: Chinese politics | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)