Category Archives: The Countryside

A volunteer’s shuttered blog: follow-up

Global Times reports on Eckart Loewe; New Weekly says he turned down an interview because of government criticism.

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Drive for development fuels illegal land seizures in Pizhou

An investigation into the land controversy in Pizhou, whose villagers recently staged a large protest against local government leaders.

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The hemp farmers of Jilin

Oriental Outlook reports on China’s largest marijuana bust: a group of families in Jilin who planted pharmacological hemp out in the open on 600 hectares of farmland.

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Three decades of public life in rural Jiangxi

Xiong Peiyun writes about television, gambling, and religion in the small village where he grew up.

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Looking for farmers of the future

He Bing (何兵) writes in The Beijing News (新京报) about rural problems in China (三农问题). Yeeyan is translating a book on American agricultural policy.

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