David Bandurski on “Dragons in Diamond Village”
Award-winning writer and independent film producer David Bandurski is the editor of the China...
land reform
Ongoing Conflict Over Land Rights in Rural China
In late March in Pingdu, Shandong Province, arsonists believed to have been hired by a village...
Is Land Reform Finally Coming to China?
Local government seizure of farmland is a major cause of social unrest in the Chinese countryside,...
China’s Third Plenum: Get Ready for Disappointment?
The Party’s looming Third Plenum is expected to lay out a roadmap of the government’s...
Land in China: Über Touchy
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...
Hu Deping on Wukan and Land Rights
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...
Fraud and Farmers: How Sino-Forest Built an Empire
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...
China’s Critical Disconnect
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...
Stanley Lubman: Will Law Reforms Reduce Forced Home Demolitions?
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...
Key Phrase: Fighting to Become a Peasant
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...
John Lee: China’s Empty Land Reform
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...
Joseph Fewsmith: ‘Tackling the Land Issue—Carefully’
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...
Chinese Rural Reforms Free Farmers From Land
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...
Yu Jianrong: Farmers Have the Right to Keep Land for Themselves
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...
The Moment
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...
Approaches to Rural Reform
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...
China Liberalizes Farmers’ Land Use Right to Boost Rural Development
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...
Hints of Discord on Land Reform in China
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...
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