Lawyers Harassed as Wukan Protests Continue
Five years after launching protests against officials’ seizure of public land that led to...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 23, 2016
Five years after launching protests against officials’ seizure of public land that led to...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 23, 2016
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 20, 2016
In September of 2011, villagers in Wukan, Guangdong, launched an anti-corruption protest after...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 27, 2015
In recent weeks, ethnic Mongolian herders have staged protests in various cities in Inner Mongolia...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 19, 2014
Land prices in China have risen steadily since the economic reforms of the late 70s and 80s, but...
by Josh Rudolph | May 15, 2014
In late March in Pingdu, Shandong Province, arsonists believed to have been hired by a village...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 16, 2014
In a special report at The Economist, James Miles examines urbanization in China, described by...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 9, 2013
The Washington Post’s Fred Hiatt talks to rights lawyer Teng Biao about his political...
by Josh Rudolph | Oct 30, 2013
Amid a renewed commitment to urbanization from China’s new leadership, a recent survey by...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 16, 2013
For Marketplace, Rob Schmitz tells the story of an elderly woman, Xie Guozhen, and her husband who...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 15, 2013
China has seen a series of bloody incidents in recent years, most recently including a string of...
by 不忘初心 | Jul 12, 2013
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...
by Cindy | Jul 6, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 4, 2013
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...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 18, 2013
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...
by Scott Greene | Mar 18, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 13, 2013
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...
by Scott Greene | Mar 4, 2013
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...