The social fabric of China's countryside is being ripped up and torn apart, and villagers are demanding that the Chinese government intervene and put a stop to it.
On a trip home late last year to the rural Chinese village of my childhood, I found my brother tying a military knife under his belt as he was leaving the house. I asked why he needed a knife, and he replied, “It is not as safe here as before.”
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