The Two-Way 5:04 am Sun February 24, 2013  In China, Not
Everything Has Changed  Shen Lixiu, 58, says she had her front
teeth kicked out in a re-education through labor camp. Chinese
authorities say they are considering "reforms" to a system that
is coming under increasing public criticism. Credit Frank
Langfitt / NPR  A lot of journalism about China focuses on the
country's rapid and stunning changes, but equally telling are
the things that stay the same. I did my first story on China's
re-education through labor camps back in 2001.  I met a former
inmate named Liu Xiaobo for lunch in Beijing. Liu, soft-spoken
and thoughtful, had written an article mourning those who had
died in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. He had also called for
democracy.  So, one day, police took him from his house and
charged him with "slandering the Communist Party" and
"disrupting social order."  "It took no more than an hour and a
half for them to arrest me in my home, declare a sentence of
three years in a re-education camp and send