Sarcasm, Sincerity, and Constitution Copying
The Chinese Communist Party launched a campaign in March for its members to hand copy the party...
land protests
Sensitive: Guo Yushan Picks Quarrels, HK, More
As of October 15, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
River Crab Archive: Month-long Xiamen Sit-in Ended
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...
Ministry of Truth: Personal Finances
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Ministry of Truth: Unexpected Emergencies
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Hire Stands Up to Chinese Government, Developers
Voice of America has an update to this CDT post from December on live-in protester Lu Daren, who was hired by the managers of the “Fish Castle” restaurant to prevent its destruction by wrecking crews: Unidentified...
Doomed China Restaurant Hires Live-in Protester
The managers of a restaurant in Beijing marked for demolition have hired a man, Lu Daren, whom they advertised for on the internet, to protest the restaurant’s destruction: “I’m tired,” the 46-year-old...
3,000 Villagers Protest in Eastern China
The AP reports of a protest over a government land seizure in Zhejiang: More than 3,000 villagers in eastern China blocked a highway and clashed with police while protesting alleged official corruption in a land compensation...
One Dead as Chinese Police Quell Land Protest: State Media
From AFP: One person was killed and five critically wounded when police in southwest China clashed with protesters trying to block construction of a tungsten mine, state media and a rights group said on Tuesday. According to the...
Two Land Protests – Radio Free Asia
From RFA Unplugged blog: Six villagers’ representatives from Wanglou village, Funing County in the eastern Chinse province of Jiangsu were detained on the night of Oct. 28 over a land compensation dispute, sources told RFA’s Cantonese service(ZH). The wife of one detained man, Yang Jiaren, said: “About 7 or 8 policemen intruded into our house […]
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