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Dragons in Diamond Village: And Other Tales from the Back Alleys of Urbanising China

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ISBN-10:

0670080969

ISBN-13:

9780670080960

Author(s): Bandurski, David
Edition: Reprint
Released: Nov 01, 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books China
Format: Paperback, 308 pages
Related ISBN: 9781612195711
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In 2009, on the outskirts of the southern metropolis of Guangzhou, Xian villagers secretly prepared for the Dragon Boat Festival. For them, the commemoration of the 221 BC poet Qu Yuan, who threw himself into a river to protest official corruption, held particular resonance. Guangzhou’s drive to become a ‘National Model City’ ahead of the 2010 Asia Games accelerated a voracious demand for land, turning the ground beneath the villagers’ feet into a commodity as valuable as diamonds, a treasure too rich for local officials to ignore. Dragons in Diamond Village is about the courage of individuals: Huang Minpeng, a semi-literate farmer turned self-taught rights defender; He Jieling, a suburban housewife who just wanted to open a hair salon; Xian villagers like Lu Zhaohui who refuse to give up the land their families have cultivated for generations. Theirs is a community bound by shared history and a belief in the necessity of change, a band of unlikely activists fighting for their place in China’s new cities.

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