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China's Land Grabs: A Case Study

For Al Jazeera, Melissa Chan reports from a village where farmers had their land confiscated only weeks before the autumn harvest:Documents provided to Al Jazeera by township-level officials showed contracts the government entered into on September 10 – less than two weeks ago. Four days later, villagers at Liuxiazhuang received notices of the confiscation of parts of their farmland and t