ARTICLE: "In China, Grass-Roots Groups Stretch Limits on Activism: A Mother Leads Quest To School Autistic Kids; Selling the Family House," by Ian Johnson, Wall Street Journal, 10 January 2008, p. A1.
Like in the environmental realm, the Chinese communist party is allowing more voluntary groups to step up in a host of basic social service domains.
The call-out text on the main subject is indicative:
Ms. Ma isn't comfortable being pegged as a social activist. Her real interest is engineering.
And yet engineering she is.
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