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Pushing the Limits 　　By his own admission， the year 2013 was among Pu Zhiqiang’s best， and worst. His adoptive mother passed away in July at the age of 89 after a seven-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease that had left her unaware of her son’s existence. At the same time， Pu was being lauded as one of China’s most successful and courageous defenders of human rights. 　　Pu habitually posted his own experiences of his mother’s illness to microblogging platform Sina Weibo， China’s Twitter equivalent. She would repeatedly ask him his name， and became confused as to who he was， calling him “son”o