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Insight: China grassroots democracy challenge awaits new leaders
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[Reuters] - In Wukan, decades of strong-arm rule by its former village party secretary, Xue Chang, had resulted in widespread abuses of power. Villagers felt powerless, unable to choose their own village chief or village committee representatives. In September
Ex-officials from restive Chinese village expelled from Communist...
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Xue Chang, the former party chief of Wukan, and Chen Shunyi, the former head of the village committee, are facing charges of corruption and ...
Deal in China rebel village Wukan welcomed - BBC News
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Chinese media welcome the end of a stand-off over land seizures in Wukan, blaming local officials and acknowledging villagers'
Special Report: Freedom fizzles out in China's rebel town of Wukan -...
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Zhuang Liehong, a 28-year-old cigarette and liquor salesman, was fed up. Businessmen were seizing land here in Wukan, his hometown fishing village in southern...
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