当前农民维权活动的一个解释框架

In contemporary China, farmers defend their rights by engaging in “everyday forms of resistance”, “policy based resistance”, and most recently, “struggle by law”. Among them, “struggle by law” demonstrates higher level of political activism and is typically organized. The fact that farmers have started to move from lodging complaints and seeking favorable outside intervention to relying on their own organization in order to defend their rights,the auther thinks, has important implications for political reforms and development in rural China.