Wukan

China’s democratic experiment comes to a bloody (and very predictable) end.

A candidate for elections in Wuhan, China has applied for U.S. asylum, fearing he will be arrested on returning home.

In recent years, grassroots organizations have been proliferating throughout the Guangdong region in southern China, causing nervousness among Party authorities, according to local media.

Almost one year after the uprising in Wukan that brought international attention, another controversy is brewing over the failure to return land to the farmers as promised.

Chinese communist authorities have punished eight of the nine members of the previous Wukan village committee, according to a recent announcement.

Contradictory statements by officials at China’s annual two meetings regarding the eagerly anticipated village elections in Wukan, Guangdong Province, do not bode well for the future of such elections across China or for Wukan village.

The citizens of Wukan got their election on March 3, bringing to office several of the local leaders that steered protests against authorities last year and brought international attention to the small fishing village in China’s south.

Village in Zhejiang Province, China, tries Wukan-style uprising, scaring away government staff.

In a small township in Henan Province, over two hundred farmers have taken a leaf from the book of Wukan—or at least tried to.

The China Model came up against the villagers of Wukan in southern China, and for the moment, the villagers have won.

The retaliation by the Chinese regime that Wukan Villagers have worried about is beginning.

Just as protests were winding down in Wukan, energetic young people with a newfound sense of their own rights played an important role in protests in Guangdong Province’s Haimen Township.

The struggle over land in Wukan Village in China is part of a larger conflict inside the Chinese Communist Party.

In an effort to stand up to local Communist Party officials, a group of young activists have initiated protests in the small village of Wukan in southern China.

The bold gambit of the protesting residents of Wukan village in southern China appears to have paid off, with a Dec. 20 acknowledgment by the prefecture-level Party branch that their demands are fair, and the withdrawal of paramilitary forces blockading the village.

The showdown between villagers and local officials in the locked-down village of Wukan inspired a neighboring village to also protest.

China’s democratic experiment comes to a bloody (and very predictable) end.

A candidate for elections in Wuhan, China has applied for U.S. asylum, fearing he will be arrested on returning home.

In recent years, grassroots organizations have been proliferating throughout the Guangdong region in southern China, causing nervousness among Party authorities, according to local media.

Almost one year after the uprising in Wukan that brought international attention, another controversy is brewing over the failure to return land to the farmers as promised.

Chinese communist authorities have punished eight of the nine members of the previous Wukan village committee, according to a recent announcement.

Contradictory statements by officials at China’s annual two meetings regarding the eagerly anticipated village elections in Wukan, Guangdong Province, do not bode well for the future of such elections across China or for Wukan village.

The citizens of Wukan got their election on March 3, bringing to office several of the local leaders that steered protests against authorities last year and brought international attention to the small fishing village in China’s south.

Village in Zhejiang Province, China, tries Wukan-style uprising, scaring away government staff.

In a small township in Henan Province, over two hundred farmers have taken a leaf from the book of Wukan—or at least tried to.

The China Model came up against the villagers of Wukan in southern China, and for the moment, the villagers have won.

The retaliation by the Chinese regime that Wukan Villagers have worried about is beginning.

Just as protests were winding down in Wukan, energetic young people with a newfound sense of their own rights played an important role in protests in Guangdong Province’s Haimen Township.

The struggle over land in Wukan Village in China is part of a larger conflict inside the Chinese Communist Party.

In an effort to stand up to local Communist Party officials, a group of young activists have initiated protests in the small village of Wukan in southern China.

The bold gambit of the protesting residents of Wukan village in southern China appears to have paid off, with a Dec. 20 acknowledgment by the prefecture-level Party branch that their demands are fair, and the withdrawal of paramilitary forces blockading the village.

The showdown between villagers and local officials in the locked-down village of Wukan inspired a neighboring village to also protest.