Across China, many women with rural hukou are systematically denied lucrative village land rights. Village assemblies, ostensibly autonomous local political organizations, decide who is a member of the rural collective and thus...
Xi Jinping’s New Era has inspired the creation of a host of “new chengyu”: idiomatic, often four-character, literary expressions that are the kernel of a larger tale. The following New Era chengyu are all references to infamous...
Lynette Ong, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, joins CDT to discuss her new book Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China. In Outsourcing Repression, Ong investigates the...
A suicide bombing in a rural Guangdong village left five dead and five injured on Monday, March 22. A swiftly imposed media blackout left details of the incident vague but it seems that the attacker, a 59-year-old local, was...
Wukan, once hailed as China’s “democracy village,” has become a site of intense...
Tsinghua University Professor of Sociology Sun Liping last week launched the WeChat public account...
The Guangdong village of Wukan won global fame and some democratic concessions in 2011 when...
At Reuters, Venus Wu and James Pomfret report that riot police in Wukan, Guangdong fired rubber...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
In 2000, activist Huang Qi was the first dissident to be arrested for online activities when he...
After a deadly clash that arose out of a months running land dispute in Jinning, Yunnan Province...
Land prices in China have risen steadily since the economic reforms of the late 70s and 80s, but...
In late March in Pingdu, Shandong Province, arsonists believed to have been hired by a village...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
South China Morning Post’s Echo Hui reports that the limited democracy in the Guangdong...
The AP reports that a Christian congregation’s Christmas meeting in Nanle county, Henan...
Local government seizure of farmland is a major cause of social unrest in the Chinese countryside,...
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