Search Results for: wukan
After Voting, Can Wukan Claim Victory?
Posted by Scott Greene | Mar 5, 2012
After electing a new village chief and one deputy on Saturday, voters in Wukan went back to the polls on Sunday to vote in run-off contests to choose a second deputy and fill the four remaining seats on a newly-created village...
Read MorePhoto: Counting the ballots in Wukan, by Jordan Pouille
Posted by Sophie Beach | Mar 4, 2012
All Eyes on Wukan as Polls Open (Updated)
Posted by Scott Greene | Mar 3, 2012
Villagers in Wukan cast their votes Saturday to fill seats on a new village committee, only a few months after violent protests over corrupt land grabs and the death of a detained villager drove away local officials and yielded...
Read MoreElection Fever in Wukan as Vote Nears
Posted by Scott Greene | Mar 2, 2012
Candidates for election to Wukan’s new village committee gave campaign speeches on Wednesday as they make their final push ahead of Saturday’s historic election, called when an investigation team declared previous...
Read MoreWukan 2.0? Zhejiang Villagers Protest Land Grabs
Posted by Scott Greene | Feb 8, 2012
Villagers marching against land grabs in the streets of two villages in Zhejiang’s Cangnan County say they have modeled their tactics after Wukan, the Guangdong village which evicted local Communist Party authorities over...
Read MoreWukan Tests Democracy With Historic Vote
Posted by Scott Greene | Feb 1, 2012
Residents of Wukan, the village in Guangdong province which garnered global attention in connection with violent land grab demonstrations late last year, went to the polls Wednesday to select a committee to oversee the election...
Read MoreWukan’s Sensitive Legacy
Posted by Scott Greene | Jan 30, 2012
China Media Project discusses the implications of the December Wukan incident, including the sentiment felt within the upper echelons of China’s Communist Party leadership: A January 27 blog post on Wukan made by lawyer...
Read MoreWukan Protest Leader Named Party Chief
Posted by Scott Greene | Jan 16, 2012
Lin Zuluan (林祖銮), one of the leaders of land grab protests in Wukan late last year which boiled over after the death of a detained villager and ultimately led to the ousting of local authorities and concessions from provincial...
Read MoreCDT Features
CDT in the News
- RFA – Chinese censors delete news report probing return of COVID tracking
- China Brief – Much Cause But Little Recourse For Popular Discontent
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) – Young people living in and outside China fight to keep spirit of ‘white paper’ protests alive
- ASPI – Singing from the CCP’s songsheet: The role of foreign influencers in China’s propaganda system
- Lacuna Magazine – Redacted Fantasy: China’s Dystopian Censorship of Online Fiction
- More...