Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by LIU Nian, SHEPHERD Christian, YANG Yuan
Xi Jinping has vowed to eradicate extreme rural deprivation by the end of 2020. Will he meet his target?
Two A3-sized cards hanging outside the door of Jike Shibu’s house in Atule’er, a village perched on a cliff in the mountains of south-west China, were enough to determine his family’s fate. (...)
, by LI Promise
From Commune to Capitalism: How China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty By Zhun Xu New York: Monthly Review Press, 2018, 154 pages, $25 paperback.
TODAY CHINA’S GEOPOLITICAL ambitions grow as quickly as its own contradictions. With the Jasic worker-student strikes last (...)
, by Agence France-Presse
Communist Youth League students to ‘spread civilisation’ in countryside and ‘promote technology’.
China is planning to send millions of youth “volunteers” back to villages, raising fears of a return to the methods of Chairman Mao’s brutal Cultural Revolution of 50 years ago.
The Communist Youth (...)
, by China Labour Net, The Lahore Times
Chinese security forces fired tear gas and beat protesters in a village in southern China on Sunday to quell a grassroots protest movement over a land dispute, residents said.
Dozens of villagers were taken to hospitals in Mianhu town and Jieyang city and five people were arrested, witnesses (...)
, by ZHANG Isabelle
The terms of the debate on the future of the Chinese political system are often defined starting from three different perspectives: some believe in a democratic transition impelled by movements of citizens and intellectuals , others believe in a popular uprising legitimated by social (...)
, by RIDDELL John
Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Life of Chinese Peasants. By Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao. New York: Public Affairs 2006. Reviewed by John Riddell. Is China killing the goose whose golden eggs have financed its economic upsurge? Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao pose this question in their gripping (...)
, by FULLBROOK David
China’s leadership stakes its future on reforming incomes in the countryside
The massive Rmb4 trillion stimulus package announced Sunday by China’s State Central Committee, which provides vast amounts of infrastructure spending and support for the rural poor, makes it clear that President Hu (...)
, by YANG Lian
Yang Lian on Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, Zhongguo nongmin diaocha. A catalogue of the iniquities visited on rural China as the CCP safeguards the ‘investment environment’ of the coastal cities, at the cost of the countryside. Impoverishment and extortion of 40 per cent of the world’s peasants, in a (...)
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