Powerful Outsiders: China’s Real Estate Developers and Peasant Resistance
In front of a half-destroyed house on the edge of one of China’s rapidly-growing cities, a “nail house” resister chased a real estate developer’s staff with two kitchen knives, accusing the “demolition gang” of constant harassment, and threatening to kill the developer. In the last few years, most of the villager’s neighbors had given up on keeping their homes, instead accepting compensation for their land, and moving...