A Blank Piece of Paper for the Unheard Voices of China
In wake of the Urumqi fire, an event that took the lives of ten and injured nine, protests erupted across China in the major cities of Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, and more. Participants took up a common banner- a blank piece of paper. On Nov. 27th, during a ceremony intended to mourn the victims of the fire, people began shouting for policy changes after a build-up of discontent spanning since the start of the pandemic. Soon after, one protester held up a sheet of paper that