Meanwhile David Stark, Hulan's American husband and a lawyer now practicing in Beijing, is asked by the Ministry of Culture to look into artifacts that had been stolen from an archeological dig that will be buried by the dam. The Chinese government is watching it closely and Hulan wants to stay in the investigation. The members of the All-Patriotic Society and its leader, Xiao Da, are a Falun-Gong-like cult with more and more members secretly joining every day. It will also bury a lot of archeological digs and historical locations. Among other things it will force two million people to relocate, it will flood and destroy a lot of land, some of which is seen as very important to some of the religions in China. Liu Hulan, an inspector in the Ministry of Public Security in Beijing is investigating a cult that is protesting against the government's building of the Three Gorges Dam.
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