With his frequent opinion pieces and public lectures, venture capitalist Eric X. Li has established himself a rising Chinese public intellectual for the English-speaking world. Since 2011, a number of his writings have appeared...
Read MoreFour months after large-scale protests in Wukan, Guangdong, led to elections for new village leaders, the authorities have punished previous leaders and removed two from the Communist Party. From Xinhua: Xue Chang, former Party...
Read MoreThree weeks ago, police suppressed a demonstration over forced relocation in Yunnan’s Sujiang county, and days later The Guardian reported on a separate protest that erupted in the southwestern province when a rubber...
Read MoreWhile policy announcements and new legislation will likely fill the news cycles during the sessions of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC), which began Monday, The New York Times reports that the most important...
Read MoreMcClatchy Newspapers’ Tom Lasseter, one of the first Western journalists to report from within the blockade of Wukan in December, writes that a recent police crackdown on land grab protests in Zhejiang’s Panhe...
Read MorePlainclothes henchmen attacked journalists from two European news organizations on Wednesday as they investigated land grab protests that began earlier this month in the Zhejiang village of Panhe, according to Shanghaiist:...
Read MoreThe recent uprising in Wukan, Guangdong focused attention on the plight of farmers whose land is confiscated by developers without proper compensation. With China’s rapid economic growth and little oversight over...
Read MoreAfter recent protests by residents in Wukan village due to anger over farmland confiscations, Premier Wen Jiabao called for better protection of farmers’ land rights on a visit to Guangdong province. Wen did not mention...
Read MoreThe Economist has launched a weekly section devoted to China, which it introduces with an article titled “The paradox of prosperity”: Only 20 years ago, China was a long way from being a global superpower. After the...
Read MoreChang Ping, one of China’s top journalists, was forced out of his position as an editor at the Southern Group of newspapers one year ago. He is currently living in Germany for although he holds an editorial position at...
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