ESWN has translated a Q & A (scroll down to bottom of page) between a reporter for Nanfang Net and a Panyu District government spokesperson about the recall effort in Taishi village, including the recent attack on activist Lu Banglie: Around 8:40pm on September 8, Lu Banglie brought two foreigners into Taishi village in a […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Beijing yesterday criticised foreign journalists for covering an ugly battle over village democracy in Taishi, Guangdong province, where residents have been intimidated and a legislator badly beaten. “We express regret over these journalists repeatedly breaching relevant rules to carry out such reporting activities,” spokesman Kong Quan […]
Read MoreFrom RConversation blog: When Guardian reporter Benjamin Joffe-Walt last saw Lu Banglie, the local democracy activist who was beaten by local thugs for leading him to Taishi village where villagers’ demands for democracy had caused such a ruckus the authorities had sealed off the area to journalists, here is how Joffe-Walt describes Lu’s physical condition: […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax: A journalist with the British newspaper, The Guardian, was beaten and had his mobile phone smashed last night during an attempt to visit the village of Taishi in Guangdong Province, the scene of an acrimonious dispute over a lucrative land deal. According to information received by Interfax, a Chinese citizen was killed in […]
Read MoreESWN has translated an essay “Taishi Village, My Neighbor” by Ai Xiaoming, which was “originally published in edited form in the Freezing Point weekly supplement in the Chinese Youth Daily, and then published in full at the Yannan Forum (note: the original has been deleted, but a copy is preserved here)”: The first time that […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: If you google the word “Taishi” in English, you may not find much. However, this continuously unfolding event has been going on weeks, and the latest developments are all over the Chinese-language Internet. This is about an election in the small village of Taishi (population about 2,000), Panyu districty, Guangzhou. First, a […]
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