Liu Ping of Shenyang Normal University says housing demolition contributed to an 80% rise in the number of complaints submitted to the government by north-easterners in 2003.

ECONOMIST: Reforming the north-east

Outside the U.S. Consulate in Shenyang, a teacher at Liaoning Normal University who gave her name as Guo prepared to apply for a visa.

WSJ: Parents of China Victim Get U.S. Visas