Esther Fung and Tom Orlik of The Wall Street Journal call attention to a legislative development that may signal the Chinese government’s intention to step up its crackdown on illegal land grabs: In a little-noticed move,...
Read MoreMcClatchy Newspapers’ Tom Lasseter tells the story of a July 2010 uprising in the suburban Beijing village of Raolefu, where angry villagers disputed the shady re-election of a corrupt leader and where a court later...
Read MoreThe growing number of mass incidents around China might show people’s impatience with the slow pace of top-down political reforms, but the bottom-up approach is not progressing smoothly either. At Reuters, John Ruwitch and...
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Cross-Talk Comics looks at the last nine months in news and the government response to many...
Read MoreIn a post for the Council on Foreign Relation’s Asia Unbound blog, CFR’s director of Asian Studies Elizabeth C. Economy describes current trends in China’s civic engagement. By referring to many recent events,...
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Cartoonist Rebel Pepper posted this reinvention of the Chinese national emblem on his Tencent...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of...
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Forced eviction plagues Chinese homeowners, as local governments make land grabs to get rich...
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Europe correspondent for Window on the South (南风窗) Xiong Peiyun shared his thoughts on land...
Read MoreA recent study suggests that China’s village elections have led to some concrete improvements for local residents since the early 80s, despite widespread meddling by Party officials. Among the reported benefits are greater...
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