Surveillance and Silence in China’s Democracy Village
Wukan, once hailed as China’s “democracy village,” has become a site of intense...
by Cindy | Nov 12, 2017
Wukan, once hailed as China’s “democracy village,” has become a site of intense...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 27, 2016
The Guangdong village of Wukan won global fame and some democratic concessions in 2011 when...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 10, 2015
In 2000, activist Huang Qi was the first dissident to be arrested for online activities when he...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 27, 2015
In recent weeks, ethnic Mongolian herders have staged protests in various cities in Inner Mongolia...
by Meredith Godwin | Nov 17, 2014
Dan Washburn worked as a sports writer and columnist at a small newspaper in Georgia prior to his...
by Cindy | Aug 1, 2014
On Wednesday, the Chinese government announced plans to reform the country’s...
by Josh Rudolph | May 15, 2014
In late March in Pingdu, Shandong Province, arsonists believed to have been hired by a village...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 16, 2014
In a special report at The Economist, James Miles examines urbanization in China, described by...
by Sophie Beach | Dec 23, 2013
Guangzhou has announced that in order to prevent the flight of corrupt officials, all 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 | Nov 16, 2013
On Friday, Beijing released the 20-page, 60-point ‘CCP Central Committee Resolution...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 1, 2013
The Australian Centre on China in the World at Australian National University has released its...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 16, 2013
For Marketplace, Rob Schmitz tells the story of an elderly woman, Xie Guozhen, and her husband who...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 13, 2013
The Party’s looming Third Plenum is expected to lay out a roadmap of the government’s...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 6, 2013
Land rights activist Ni Yulan has been released from prison after serving a two and a half year...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 18, 2013
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...
by Anne Henochowicz | May 10, 2013
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...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 14, 2013
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...