{"id":16658,"date":"2008-01-21T13:29:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T20:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/21\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T13:29:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T20:29:30","slug":"chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Farmers Protest A Key Mao Tenet &#8211; Peter Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/china%20farmers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"china%20farmers.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/china%20farmers-thumb.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a> From The Christian Science Monitor:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe snowy, fogbound fields around this village in central China do not look like a battlefield. But in recent weeks they have become a flash point in a spreading peasants&#8217; revolt against one of the key aspects of Communist Party rule: state ownership of farmland. &#8220;My ancestors bought this land&#8221; before the 1949 Communist revolution, says Cheng Zhenhai, a grizzled cotton farmer huddling close to the stove in his dimly lit one-room home, &#8220;so I have to keep it. As a peasant, I want nothing else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cheng was one of more than 10,000 peasants in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shaanxi\">Shaanxi Province <\/a> who <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/12\/chinas_emerging_land_rights_movement.php\" target=\"_blank\">signed a public letter last month <\/a>renouncing the collective land-ownership system that has governed China&#8217;s countryside for the past half century and declaring the land they farm to be their private property. At about the same time, farmers in four other provinces signed similar declarations that appeared on the Internet. The statements represent only a theoretical change, since farmers are powerless to reform the law and local authorities have cracked down hard by arresting ringleaders of the nascent movement. But some observers suggest that if protests gather steam, they could spark radical changes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0122\/p01s01-woap.html\">[Full Text]<br \/>\n<br \/><\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n[Image: Chinese farmers tried to return to land set aside for Sanmenxia dam, but officials took control of half of it, by Zhang xiaoli from Newscom.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Christian Science Monitor: The snowy, fogbound fields around this village in central China do not look like a battlefield. But in recent weeks they have become a flash point in a spreading peasants&#8217; revolt against one of the key aspects of Communist Party rule: state ownership of farmland. &#8220;My ancestors bought this land&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[579,1777,526,6339],"class_list":["post-16658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-society","tag-farmers","tag-land-rights","tag-property-rights","tag-shaanxi","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China&#039;s Farmers Protest A Key Mao Tenet - Peter Ford<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China&#039;s Farmers Protest A Key Mao Tenet - Peter Ford\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From The Christian Science Monitor: The snowy, fogbound fields around this village in central China do not look like a battlefield. But in recent weeks they have become a flash point in a spreading peasants&#8217; revolt against one of the key aspects of Communist Party rule: state ownership of farmland. &#8220;My ancestors bought this land&#8221; [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"China Digital Times (CDT)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-01-21T20:29:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/china%20farmers-thumb.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Liu Yong\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Liu Yong\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Liu Yong\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/bde859fa557a468c7a4b1a9d9db2b46c\"},\"headline\":\"China&#8217;s Farmers Protest A Key Mao Tenet &#8211; Peter Ford\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-01-21T20:29:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2008-01-21T20:29:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/\"},\"wordCount\":233,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/china%20farmers-thumb.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"farmers\",\"land rights\",\"property rights\",\"Shaanxi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Law\",\"Society\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/\",\"name\":\"China's Farmers Protest A Key Mao Tenet - Peter Ford\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/china%20farmers-thumb.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-01-21T20:29:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2008-01-21T20:29:30+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/china%20farmers-thumb.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/china%20farmers-thumb.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"China&#8217;s Farmers Protest A Key Mao Tenet &#8211; Peter Ford\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/\",\"name\":\"China Digital Times (CDT)\",\"description\":\"Covering China from Cyberspace\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization\",\"name\":\"China Digital Times\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.jpg\",\"width\":186,\"height\":177,\"caption\":\"China Digital Times\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/cdt\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/bde859fa557a468c7a4b1a9d9db2b46c\",\"name\":\"Liu Yong\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/author\/liu-yong\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"China's Farmers Protest A Key Mao Tenet - Peter Ford","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"China's Farmers Protest A Key Mao Tenet - Peter Ford","og_description":"From The Christian Science Monitor: The snowy, fogbound fields around this village in central China do not look like a battlefield. But in recent weeks they have become a flash point in a spreading peasants&#8217; revolt against one of the key aspects of Communist Party rule: state ownership of farmland. &#8220;My ancestors bought this land&#8221; [&hellip;]","og_url":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/","og_site_name":"China Digital Times (CDT)","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes","article_published_time":"2008-01-21T20:29:30+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/china%20farmers-thumb.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Liu Yong","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@cdt","twitter_site":"@cdt","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Liu Yong","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/"},"author":{"name":"Liu Yong","@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/bde859fa557a468c7a4b1a9d9db2b46c"},"headline":"China&#8217;s Farmers Protest A Key Mao Tenet &#8211; Peter Ford","datePublished":"2008-01-21T20:29:30+00:00","dateModified":"2008-01-21T20:29:30+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/"},"wordCount":233,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/china%20farmers-thumb.jpg","keywords":["farmers","land rights","property rights","Shaanxi"],"articleSection":["Law","Society"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/","url":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/","name":"China's Farmers Protest A Key Mao Tenet - Peter Ford","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/china%20farmers-thumb.jpg","datePublished":"2008-01-21T20:29:30+00:00","dateModified":"2008-01-21T20:29:30+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/china%20farmers-thumb.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/china%20farmers-thumb.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/chinas-farmers-protest-a-key-mao-tenet-peter-ford\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"China&#8217;s Farmers Protest A Key Mao Tenet &#8211; Peter Ford"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#website","url":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/","name":"China Digital Times (CDT)","description":"Covering China from Cyberspace","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization","name":"China Digital Times","url":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.jpg","width":186,"height":177,"caption":"China Digital Times"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes","https:\/\/x.com\/cdt"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/bde859fa557a468c7a4b1a9d9db2b46c","name":"Liu Yong","url":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/author\/liu-yong\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}