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The People Who Will Change China.(China 2008; Portfolio)(Liu Anjun; Zhao Bandi; Zhang Zhengxiang; Ding Zilin)
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January 7, 2008
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Even some critics of the Chinese regime were happy when Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympics: some felt patriotic joy, others expected the Games might rally activists, as the Olympics had in Seoul 20 years earlier. Party officials would not dare crack down with the eyes of the world upon them, or so the thinking went. But in the nearly two decades since Tiananmen, activism in China has evolved. The focus is no longer simply democracy, and the means are not organized street protests. Now the most forceful advocates for change are often those pushing environmental causes, or fighting unscrupulous land developers -- issues closer to the lives of individual Chinese than voting.
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