"a new breed of activists is emerging, eager to test the limits of what can - and canot - be changed in today's China."
開頭的故事是:
" ... On the other end of the line is a villager in Shandong province, birthplace of Confucius, who just won a popular election to become village chief by promising to protect fellow peasants from land developers. But local officials, unimpressed by this political interloper, have refused to hand over to him the official seals of his office."
下面有一段:
"China introduced village polls in the late 1980s after disaffected peasants, outraged by graft and illegal fees, stopped cooperating with local governments in huge swaths of the hinterland. Give peasants some say in choosing their leaders, the thinking went, and they are less likely to take pitchforks to city hall."