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The Death and Life of China's Civil Society
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 August 2003
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Afew years ago, I interviewed two retired men who had helped organize a huge class-action lawsuit against the Chinese government's efforts to demolish most of Beijing's old town. The men had been elected in a secret ballot by all 10,000 members of the lawsuit; they were the group's representatives in court and to the media. At the end of our talk, I asked one of the men why he was so confident that they would win the suit, which to me seemed doomed to failure.
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