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Farmer-Turned-Activist Plants Seeds of Reform (Innovators)

Date: June 26, 2008

Author: Edward Cody

QUOTE: His main weapon was Chinese law, the letter of which offers many guarantees that, in practice, are often set aside by party leaders. In a country where the Communist Party crushes any attempt at forming associations outside its control, Lu's goal of spreading the word on how to use law books to oppose local leaders amounted to a relatively novel political challenge.

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