Lawyers Harassed as Wukan Protests Continue
Five years after launching protests against officials’ seizure of public land that led to...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Jun 23, 2016
Five years after launching protests against officials’ seizure of public land that led to...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Jun 21, 2016
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Jun 20, 2016
In September of 2011, villagers in Wukan, Guangdong, launched an anti-corruption protest after...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Oct 8, 2014
With the 25th anniversary of the 1989 June 4th crackdown still fresh in memory (at least outside...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Jun 19, 2014
Land prices in China have risen steadily since the economic reforms of the late 70s and 80s, but...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Mar 20, 2014
The second of two Wukan village leaders who warned this month of a resurgence by the...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Mar 14, 2014
Yang Semao, a protest leader turned deputy village chief in the democratic Petri dish of Wukan,...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Mar 3, 2014
Following a gradual erosion of faith in Wukan’s democratic experiment, South China Morning...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Jan 17, 2014
South China Morning Post’s Echo Hui reports that the limited democracy in the Guangdong...
Read MorePosted by Grace | Jul 6, 2013
Al Jazeera English premiers a four-part documentary series, Wukan: After the Uprising, taking an in-depth look at the village’s experience of grassroots democracy following protests over illegal government land grabs in...
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