In People’s Park in Chongqing, a series of tree-shaded terraces clinging to the steep mountainside above the Yangtze River, a big sign has gone up. “Do not make noises that could disturb others,” it says, along with other exhortations about civilised behaviour.
For residents, the sign embodies the political drama that has shaken China in the past two weeks and raised the most serious questions about the future of the Communist party in more than two decades, sparked by the removal of Bo Xilai, the city’s party secretary.
“It means the singing is over,” says Gong Libin, one of the old men chatting with his friends in the park.
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