Some of the most opinionated people I’ve ever met have been old. Old and cranky, old and wise, old and just old for the sake of being old. Old people, by and large, have earned their opinions.

But not in China. In China, when your house gets demolished before the Olympics and you’re sent to a rickety apartment on the outskirts of Beijing, you do what any good Chinese citizen does. You stay quiet. Or you get manual labor re-education for a year. It’s your choice, really, even if you’re a frail 70-year-old woman: Read more…