However, behindthe image of two-year-old Jingdan lies atale not of intentional crueltybut, it seems, one of misplacedloveandfear: hissisterdisappearedfromthe samespotjusttwoweeks ago.
For the sameold reasons: managers fear workers will slack off and workers fear lost face time will translate to lost respect, lost opportunities and lost pay.
Even today, over six decades later, just hearing that long wail of the warning siren on old newsreels and films gives me that same cold knot of fear in the pit of my stomach which I always felt all those years ago.
Others fear that a house business committee would amount to no more than the sameold backroom dealing, but clothed with a little extra legitimacy because a few establishment grandees had been in the room when it was sealed.