China’s Bizarre Program to Keep Activists in Check
As part of “stability maintenance,” people the state considers troublemakers may be sent to jail—or sent on vacation, Jianying Zha writes.
This practice is known as bei lüyou, 'to be touristed.' The term is one of those sly inventions favored by Chinese netizens: whenever law enforcement conscripts them into an activity, the prefix bei indicates the passive tense.