Channeling Protest: The Case of the Three Gorges Dam
In contemporary Chinese society, when conflict arises between officials and ordinary people, there are four major ways for people to seek remedy – class action, group petition, on-the-spot resistance, and collective riot, the combination of group petition and on-the-spot resistance being the most common. I will analyze the legal remedy pursued by those displaced by China’s Three Gorges dam in the first class-action lawsuit known as the “Case...