Across China, many women with rural hukou are systematically denied lucrative village land rights. Village assemblies, ostensibly autonomous local political organizations, decide who is a member of the rural collective and thus...
Lynette Ong, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, joins CDT to discuss her new book Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China. In Outsourcing Repression, Ong investigates the...
Wukan, once hailed as China’s “democracy village,” has become a site of intense...
The Guangdong village of Wukan won global fame and some democratic concessions in 2011 when...
In 2000, activist Huang Qi was the first dissident to be arrested for online activities when he...
In recent weeks, ethnic Mongolian herders have staged protests in various cities in Inner Mongolia...
Dan Washburn worked as a sports writer and columnist at a small newspaper in Georgia prior to his...
On Wednesday, the Chinese government announced plans to reform the country’s...
In late March in Pingdu, Shandong Province, arsonists believed to have been hired by a village...
In a special report at The Economist, James Miles examines urbanization in China, described by...
Guangzhou has announced that in order to prevent the flight of corrupt officials, all village...
Local government seizure of farmland is a major cause of social unrest in the Chinese countryside,...
On Friday, Beijing released the 20-page, 60-point ‘CCP Central Committee Resolution...
The Australian Centre on China in the World at Australian National University has released its...
For Marketplace, Rob Schmitz tells the story of an elderly woman, Xie Guozhen, and her husband who...
The Party’s looming Third Plenum is expected to lay out a roadmap of the government’s...
Land rights activist Ni Yulan has been released from prison after serving a two and a half year...
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...
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