TU Tuesday-Culture

http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Land-dispute-sparks-protests-in-east-China-village-3334716.php
http://www.chinese-poems.com/d39.html

This article is about disputes between villagers and police over land disputes. The violent disputes and protests have been around in the past, and have now sparked protests, and the violence has escalated to where "a Dutch reporter interviewing villagers... was beaten up...by men who appeared to be plainclothes police". The poem, Qiang Village 3, is also about a struggle between villagers with the harsh conditions imposed upon them by the government. "Conscription still continues without an end" and "children are campaigning to the east" have a sort of alliteration that uses the hard c sound and gives a feeling of the rigidity of laws and mandates imposed upon the villagers and their way of life.