I was thinking same thing too. What is going on to there?
I'm not a China specialist, but I know a good bit about Asia in general, and a few parts in particular so I'll venture a wild guess.
China is very group centric, and such systems can work well for the great mass of people. Not quite for everyone, though, and for many of this small group it can feel oppressive and unaccomodating.
Picture a small, Chinese Steve Jobs in a propellor beanie cap, okay..?
"The Group is GOOD..!" type societies have a type of child-rearing format in which young people always being with and in the group, and being outside of it is bad.
The ones who aren't so hot on that are often cursed with the sharp feeling that Oppression Of Self Process began in the early part of the education system and later intensified.
Picture that little Chinese jobs writing, "Think Different" on a grainy black-and-white of Mao, then someone coming up and painting a big "X" across that, then shoving him back into a big, uniformed group chanting some song:
That produces an anger that is hard to describe.
So they remember and lash out at THAT.