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Based on an empirical fieldwork study, this paper discusses the contestation between land-lost farmers and local government in the process of urbanisation and land expropriation in China, examining their respective responses to this process.It is argued that such a contestation is an interaction where land-lost farmers lay claim to their legitimate morality while local government lays claim to its legitimate authority.The final determinant lies in the central state.