They never saw him coming: the man with the bag of crabs. Donning large aviator sunglasses, he strode into the property fair in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing and calmly launched his protest.
He plucked out six crabs on rope leashes, each with tags – “high housing prices” and “high land prices” – tied to their backs. His accomplice unfurled a large banner that asked: “When will housing prices stop going wild?” The crabs crawled all over it, a scuttling metaphor for Chinese property developers.
Compared with the occasional demonstrations that turn violent in China and bring out the riot police, the man’s act was innocuous. He slipped away as quietly as he entered the exhibition hall. His identity remains a mystery.
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