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 Samuel Wade | Sep 26, 2016
Next year’s 19th Party Congress is expected to bring a major restructuring of China’s...
by Cindy | Sep 21, 2016
A government crackdown in Wukan is once again drawing international media attention to the small...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 15, 2016
The fishing village of Wukan, Guangdong remains under tight security following a violent clash...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 14, 2016
Following reports yesterday of a bloody crackdown in Wukan, Guangdong, Reuters’ James...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 13, 2016
At Reuters, Venus Wu and James Pomfret report that riot police in Wukan, Guangdong fired rubber...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 9, 2016
At the South China Morning Post, Mimi Lau reports that Lin Zuluan, the former village chief of...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 22, 2016
Citizen journalist Lu Yuyu and his girlfriend Li Tingyu have been chronicling “mass...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 6, 2016
Five years after protests against the official seizure of public land led to local...
by Sophie Beach | Jun 26, 2016
Friends and associates of citizen journalist Lu Yuyu, known as @wickedonnaa on Twitter, feared he...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 23, 2016
Five years after launching protests against officials’ seizure of public land that led to...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 23, 2016
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 21, 2016
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 20, 2016
In September of 2011, villagers in Wukan, Guangdong, launched an anti-corruption protest after...
by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 13, 2014
Economist and politician Hu Deping may be best known as the son of Hu Yaobang, the party leader...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 10, 2014
Protests against a planned molybdenum copper plant in Shifang, Sichuan were hailed as a triumph of...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 8, 2014
With the 25th anniversary of the 1989 June 4th crackdown still fresh in memory (at least outside...