If only we'd seen
one press release this year or last from any of the major publishers even
vaguely alluding to the fact that they have to work within various strictures and that there is a desire, however minimal, over time to develop a dialogue with China's authorities to talk about legal issues such as
human rights environmental rights issues and a myriad of other social rights concerns, as well as other issues in the PRC, from housing law to dealing with the fallout of local government mismanagement after disasters such as the earthquake in Sichuan.