Minitrue: Do Not Report on Wukan Mass Incident
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
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...
Read MorePosted by Scott Greene | Mar 4, 2013
While a disputed land sale has sparked protests and demands for democracy in the Guangdong village of Shangpu, Reuters reports that “spring is over” in the nearby village of Wukan, which made headlines last year for...
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