Mixed Fears for Rights Protection in New Civil Code
On Wednesday, the National People’s Congress took a step towards the creation of China’s first...
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LatestSteps Toward New Civil Code Bring Skepticism, Debate
This year’s gathering of the Two Sessions in Beijing brought early steps towards the...
CDT Bookshelf: Interview with Leta Hong Fincher
Leta Hong Fincher’s first book Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Zed...
Reform Plan Laid Out in Third Plenum Communiqué
The highly-anticipated Third Plenum meeting of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central...
Diaoyu Islands Are Xinhua’s
Last week, writer Lang Yaoyuan wrote on his verified Sina Weibo account that not a single...
Yan Lianke Appeals to Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao over Beijing Evictions
When writer Yan Lianke was evicted from his recently-purchased home in Beijing, he wrote an appeal to President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao. Index on Censorship translated and published it: Three years ago, I bought a...
Blue Dragon Mountain: the Chinese Village 'That Doesn't Exist'
Thirteen years ago, villagers were relocated from their hometown in Heilongjiang to make way for a reservoir needed to supply drinking water for Harbin. Dissatisfied with the compensation offered them, they moved back in and...
Forced Demolition Standoff in Guangzhou; Wen Jiabao Decries Rampant Redevelopment
Caixin has posted a slideshow of a husband and wife who refused to relocate from their apartment to make way for a demolition crew in Guangzhou. See the photos here: In Guangzhou’s Yuexiu district lie the remains of what...
‘China’s New Marriage Law May Exacerbate Gender Wealth Gap’
China Debate has an article looking at how reforms in the Marriage Law are unfair to women who may have invested equally with their husbands in joint property, but can’t claim any right to it in a divorce: China’s Supreme...
Housing Demolition in 2010: A Report (Part 1)
China Geeks has translated part of an introduction to a 30,000 character report about housing demolition in 2010. Chinese media has been banned from writing about the report: In our analysis of 2010′s demolition events and...
Fighting Eviction: The Videogame
A new videogame pits feisty “nailhouse” owners, or property owners who refuse to be forcibly evicted, against property developers. From the Wall Street Journal blog: Nail Household vs. Demolition Team, released by...
Disappearing Shanghai: The Roots of an Urban Tragedy, Pt. I
Shanghai Scrap has interviewed Amy L. Sommers, an American lawyer who tried to buy a pre-War home in Shanghai and became intimately familiar with the legal complexities of ownership claims on old buildings there. She later wrote...
Eight Held After China Mine Clash
From AFP: POLICE in northern China have detained eight people suspected of instigating a violent clash between scores of miners and villagers over ownership of a coal mine, state media said on Tuesday. Dozens were injured in the...
Loss of Homes Threatens Social Stability in China
The possibility for social unrest in China could arise as a result of the conflict between the state’s property prerogatives and citizens’ housing interests. From Stephanie Ho of Voice of America News:...
In China, Leaders Turn Focus to Farmers’ Plight
Chinese leaders have turned their attention to the social imbalances that face China’s 730 million farmers. Land reform measures and rural property rights form the core of the discussion. Andrew Batson of Wall Street...
Would-Be Protesters Find the Olympics Failed to Expand Free Speech in Beijing
The New York Times reports on a group of people who traveled to Beijing intending to hold a protest during the Olympics against the unjust loss of property: Some of the group left their hide-out, an apartment in a northern...
China’s Farmers Protest A Key Mao Tenet – Peter Ford
From The Christian Science Monitor:
The snowy, fogbound fields around this village in central China do not look like a battlefield. But in recent weeks they have become a flash point
China’s Property Law Takes Effect – Xinhua
From Xinhua:
China’s landmark Property Law that provides equal protection to both state and private properties was put into effect on Monday.
The law approved by the national
