China’s noisy ‘dancing grannies’ silenced by device that disables speakers

Many people are too scared to confront the groups of middle-aged and older women who take over public parks and sports grounds to exercise along to music

Across China's public parks and squares, in the early hours of the morning or late in the afternoon, the grannies gather.

The gangs, made up mostly of middle-aged and older women who went through the Cultural Revolution, take to a corner of a local park or sporting ground and dance in unison to Chinese music. Loud music.