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...
Five years after launching protests against officials’ seizure of public land that led to...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
In September of 2011, villagers in Wukan, Guangdong, launched an anti-corruption protest after...
In recent weeks, ethnic Mongolian herders have staged protests in various cities in Inner Mongolia...
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...
In a special report at The Economist, James Miles examines urbanization in China, described by...
The Washington Post’s Fred Hiatt talks to rights lawyer Teng Biao about his political...
Amid a renewed commitment to urbanization from China’s new leadership, a recent survey by...
For Marketplace, Rob Schmitz tells the story of an elderly woman, Xie Guozhen, and her husband who...
China has seen a series of bloody incidents in recent years, most recently including a string of...
On Wednesday, as the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue got underway in Washington D.C., the Chinese character 拆 chai was found spray-painted on the gateposts of the Chinese embassy there. The graffiti has been...
Al Jazeera English premiers a four-part documentary series, Wukan: After the Uprising, taking an in-depth look at the village’s experience of grassroots democracy following protests over illegal government land grabs in...
South China Morning Post’s Tom Holland suggests that Beijing’s faith in urbanization as an economic engine may be misplaced: Urbanisation is not just the centrepiece of new Premier Li Keqiang’s economic...
When something disappears from the Internet in China, netizens joke that it has been “river-crabbed,” a play on the euphemism “harmonized.” The River Crab Archive is a collection of blog post titles, weibo, and other materials...
Mimi Lau of the South China Morning Post reports that despite his reformist credentials, new Guangdong party chief Hu Chunhua has held his cards close to the vest while navigating a series of early tests: His low-profile, opaque...
Global Times’ Liang Chen revisits the “seesaw battle” over grave demolitions in Henan, which began last year with a heavy-handed campaign of land reclamation. Locals suspected that this was to make way for...
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