I picked up this anthology of essays because it showed up in an author search for Michael Anti. Thus, I expected to have my pro-free-speech views reinforced. It turns out that Anti wrote just one essay in the collection; and there's a variety. Thus I learned some things. Including…

• I read about the case of Wu Ying, who entrepeneur-ishly raised money for a business venture. But in China's waffling-between-Communist-and-Capitalist situation, she found investors, but then got sentenced to death for finding them. That death penalty was overturned.
• I read "A New Approach for Stability Preservation," by Pan Ying. This essay makes the case for cracking down on people who post on the internet to point out corruption. It wasn't convincing, but it's always interesting to see how the other side frames the argument.