Tag: Rural democracy
A Chinese Experiment in Democracy Meets Fierce Resistance
The Christian Science Monitor reports on the fate of villagers who tried to recall their elected village council, according to a process outlines in the village democracy law, over suspected corruption in a land deal:Huiguan, a nondescript cluster of brick houses outside the port of Tianjin, is like tens of thousands of other Chinese villages, on the verge of being swallowed up by a fast-expandinSeptember 2, 2008 8:10 PM
