forced demolition

Her mother was threatened by CCP police.

Rather than be forced off his land by officially-backed real estate developers, a Chinese man built a mortar to fight back.

Though appealing to higher authorities is a time-honored practice from Imperial China, now it is little more than a piece of bureaucratic rhetoric.

Developers demolishing people’s houses happen regularly in China, but a recent case in central China’s Henan Province has been widely publicized, arousing outrage.

Seven people appeared to attempt to kill themselves by drinking pesticide, outside a major state newspaper company in Beijing on July 16, in an attempt to gain public attention over the demolition of their homes.

Her mother was threatened by CCP police.

Rather than be forced off his land by officially-backed real estate developers, a Chinese man built a mortar to fight back.

Though appealing to higher authorities is a time-honored practice from Imperial China, now it is little more than a piece of bureaucratic rhetoric.

Developers demolishing people’s houses happen regularly in China, but a recent case in central China’s Henan Province has been widely publicized, arousing outrage.

Seven people appeared to attempt to kill themselves by drinking pesticide, outside a major state newspaper company in Beijing on July 16, in an attempt to gain public attention over the demolition of their homes.