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It’s official: Wukan 2.0 is taking place in Panhe (泮河), a small village of about 5,000 souls in coastal Zhejiang Province.  As Tea Leaf Nation reported on February 7 and February 8, based on reports circulating in the Chinese blogosphere, and as now confirmed by the Global Times, at least 200 villagers staged three protests [...]

Perhaps Wukan may be what many netizens are calling “the spark that sets the prairie ablaze.” As Tea Leaf Nation recently reported, China’s blogosphere is abuzz with rumors of a citizen uprising in Panhe Village in Zhejiang province. As with last year’s Wukan uprising, citizens there allegedly grew infuriated over the local government’s sale of [...]

[Readers can see an update to this post in Wukan 2.0? Evidence Mounts Panhe Uprising Is Real in these pages.] Could it be the “Wukan effect?” That’s what @城道 has used to describe recent rumors of another uprising in Panhe’s East and West Village in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province that have recently circulated on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter. Stop [...]