Lawyers Harassed as Wukan Protests Continue
Five years after launching protests against officials’ seizure of public land that led to...
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Word of the Week: Shanwei Form
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Wukan Villagers Protest After Village Chief’s Detention
In September of 2011, villagers in Wukan, Guangdong, launched an anti-corruption protest after...
Herders Protest Land Grabs in Inner Mongolia
In recent weeks, ethnic Mongolian herders have staged protests in various cities in Inner Mongolia...
Wukan Youth: Zhang Jianxing
Land prices in China have risen steadily since the economic reforms of the late 70s and 80s, but...
Ongoing Conflict Over Land Rights in Rural China
In late March in Pingdu, Shandong Province, arsonists believed to have been hired by a village...
Urbanization: Where China’s Future Will Happen
In a special report at The Economist, James Miles examines urbanization in China, described by...
Teng Biao Urges China to Follow Its Own Laws
The Washington Post’s Fred Hiatt talks to rights lawyer Teng Biao about his political...
Rural Desperation Mounts Amid Urbanization
Amid a renewed commitment to urbanization from China’s new leadership, a recent survey by...
The Anatomy of a Shanghai Land Grab
For Marketplace, Rob Schmitz tells the story of an elderly woman, Xie Guozhen, and her husband who...
Filmmaker Gives Voice to Acts of Rage in Today’s China
China has seen a series of bloody incidents in recent years, most recently including a string of...
Graffitist Marks Chinese Embassy for Demolition
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...
‘Wukan: After The Uprising’ Premieres On Al Jazeera
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...
Are Beijing’s Expectations for Urbanization Realistic?
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...
River Crab Archive: Yunnan Villagers Protest Land Grabs in May
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...
“Little Hu” Thrown into the Guangdong Fire
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...
Battle Continues Against Henan’s Tomb Razers
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...
Shine Has Worn Off Wukan’s Early Triumphs
While a disputed land sale has sparked protests and demands for democracy in the Guangdong village of Shangpu, Reuters reports that “spring is over” in the nearby village of Wukan, which made headlines last year for...
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