Surveillance and Silence in China’s Democracy Village
Wukan, once hailed as China’s “democracy village,” has become a site of intense...
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LatestNine Imprisoned for up to Ten Years Over Wukan Protests
The Guangdong village of Wukan won global fame and some democratic concessions in 2011 when...
Huang Qi Takes Farmers’ Land Fight Online
In 2000, activist Huang Qi was the first dissident to be arrested for online activities when he...
Herders Protest Land Grabs in Inner Mongolia
In recent weeks, ethnic Mongolian herders have staged protests in various cities in Inner Mongolia...
CDT Bookshelf: Dan Washburn on Golf in China
Dan Washburn worked as a sports writer and columnist at a small newspaper in Georgia prior to his...
Unifying the Hukou System Is Just a Start
On Wednesday, the Chinese government announced plans to reform the country’s...
Ongoing Conflict Over Land Rights in Rural China
In late March in Pingdu, Shandong Province, arsonists believed to have been hired by a village...
Urbanization: Where China’s Future Will Happen
In a special report at The Economist, James Miles examines urbanization in China, described by...
Officials Asked to Monitor Subordinates for Corruption
Guangzhou has announced that in order to prevent the flight of corrupt officials, all village...
Is Land Reform Finally Coming to China?
Local government seizure of farmland is a major cause of social unrest in the Chinese countryside,...
One-Child Policy, Labor Camps Addressed in “Blueprint for Reform”
On Friday, Beijing released the 20-page, 60-point ‘CCP Central Committee Resolution...
Yearbook 2013: Civilising China
The Australian Centre on China in the World at Australian National University has released its...
The Anatomy of a Shanghai Land Grab
For Marketplace, Rob Schmitz tells the story of an elderly woman, Xie Guozhen, and her husband who...
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...
Activist Ni Yulan Released from Prison
Land rights activist Ni Yulan has been released from prison after serving a two and a half year...
River Crab Archive: Yunnan Villagers Protest Land Grabs in May
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...
AmazeNews: At the Mercy of “Brother Emperor”
Qiwen Lu (奇闻录, AmazeNews) gathers “news of the weird” from China. It was voted Best Blog in Chinese in Deutsche Welle’s 2013 BOBS awards. The AmazeNews story below was first posted on May 8 as part of the ongoing series Scenes...
Tensions Mount as China Snatches Farms for Homes
The Wall Street Journal explores land ownership in China, and the economic and political factors which lead to farmers being pushed off their land and often into lives of poverty: The root of the problem is an economic system...
