Gillian Wong, China Steps Carefully With Protesting Middle Class. Associated Press, Oct 29, 2012 (2 days ago) http://news.yahoo.com/china-step ... lass-112620487.html
("Dalian, Xiamen and Ningbo are among the better-off cities in China. The treatment protesters there received has been gentler than the beatings and large-scale arrests often given to rowdy rural and working-class protesters. Those tend to be larger and more violent, and are seen as more of a direct challenge to the party, which supposedly represents the proletariat")
(b) It is immediately clear that the BBC title is a bit sensational ("造反"), which is not supported by the AP report.