David Bandurski on “Dragons in Diamond Village”
Award-winning writer and independent film producer David Bandurski is the editor of the China...
by Natalie Ornell | Mar 6, 2016
Award-winning writer and independent film producer David Bandurski is the editor of the China...
by Josh Rudolph | May 15, 2014
In late March in Pingdu, Shandong Province, arsonists believed to have been hired by a village...
by Josh Rudolph | Nov 21, 2013
Local government seizure of farmland is a major cause of social unrest in the Chinese countryside,...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 13, 2013
The Party’s looming Third Plenum is expected to lay out a roadmap of the government’s...
by Olivia Rosenman | Jul 16, 2013
On his personal blog, Jonah Kessel writes about the making of his three-part video project ‘China’s Consuming Billion’, which accompanies the second installment of The New York Times’ latest series on China, ‘Leaving...
by Anne Henochowicz | Dec 28, 2011
Hu Deping, son of former Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, contributed this commentary to a forum discussing the December 22 People’s Daily editorial “What Does ‘Wukan’s Turn’ Mean for Us?” The discussion was...
by Scott Greene | Oct 16, 2011
When Canada’s securities watchdog suspended trading in the shares of Toronto-listed Chinese company Sino-Forest in August amid allegations that it exaggerated its land holdings and profits, it sparked a rout...
by Samuel Wade | Jun 21, 2011
At China Real Time Report, Stanley Lubman examines the “critical disconnect” between China’s national and local governments, its historical roots, and its consequences in areas from food safety to intellectual...
by Paulina Hartono | Jan 29, 2011
Legal expert Stanley Lubman weighs in on legal reform restricting housing demolition. From China Real Time Report: n October 2010, thugs hired by a demolition company to destroy a house forcefully entered it and brutally...
by Paulina Hartono | Jul 15, 2010
Southern Metropolis Daily’s “key phrase” of the day is “fighting to become a peasant,” or 争当农民. According to news reports, the term originated when government workers of Yiwu city in Zhejiang...
by Liu Yong | Jul 5, 2009
From guardian.co.uk: Recently, Beijing announced new procedures to “give an effective guarantee” to rural citizens that their land rights would be respected by “standardising” arbitration procedures. This...
by Xiao Qiang | Jan 12, 2009
From the China Leadership Monitor: Thirty years after undergoing a major revolution that de-collectivized agriculture, China is facing another major change in rural life as commercial agriculture spreads and as peasants migrate...
by Xiao Niu | Nov 7, 2008
From NPR’s All Things Considered, a report brings out the different reactions that Chinese farmers have toward the recent land reform policy. In China, land issues and peasant rebellions have traditionally brought down...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 27, 2008
Danwei translates an interview with Yu Jianrong, director of the Rural Development Institute’s Social Issues Research Center at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, about the proposed reforms in land ownership: Yu spoke...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 24, 2008
Time Magazine writes about the recent reforms in land ownership laws for China’s farmers: Three decades ago, the Party approved another set of rural reforms, liberating a billion peasants from the collectivized farming...
by Xiao Niu | Oct 22, 2008
This article briefly traces several historical moments of land reform in China, particularly the implementation of the household contract system, the emergence of township enterprises, and the use of forestland. From Beijing...
by Priscilla Jiao | Oct 19, 2008
China on Sunday finally issued the full text of the land reform plan approved on October 12. Xinhua reports: The Communist Party of China (CPC) issued a landmark policy document on Sunday to allow farmers to “lease their...
by Xiao Qiang | Oct 15, 2008
Edward Wong reports in the New York Times about the recent land reform policy: Chinese leaders have yet to announce details of a rural reform policy they said they adopted on Sunday, contributing to speculation that Communist...