A series of indiscriminate violent acts have exposed underlying societal fractures that, without reform, are likely to escalate.
An intentional car ramming in Changsha, Hunan, kills eight and injures five
Another random act of violence over the weekend in central China raises concerns over unresolved land disputes, along with social alienation compounded by the country’s economic crisis.
No country for private houses
(October 26, 2012) The history of government property seizure in China reads like an appalling dystopian fiction. A new film, which debuted in New York on October 28, looks closely at the astonishing but all-too-true stories of individual citizens – survivors of this ongoing battle for property rights – who have been robbed of their homes, their lands, unconscionably beaten, tormented and forced to endure bizarre and cruel new realities as a result of a social-political ideology gone mad and corrupt officials and developers who will stop at nothing in their pursuit of power, privilege and gain.
Chinese government bracing for civil uprisings


