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

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David Bandurski

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

David Bandurski

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English

Viking
03 November 2015

Reportage & collected journalism; History; Living & working abroad

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.

By: David Bandurski
Imprint: Viking
Country of Publication: China
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 450g
ISBN: 9780670080960
ISBN 10: 0670080969
Pages: 275
Publication Date: 03 November 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Bandurski is analyst and editor at the University of Hong Kong's China Media Project. An award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, he received a Human Rights Press Award in 2008 for an investigative piece on China's use of professional associations to enforce Internet censorship guidelines. He produces Chinese independent films and documentaries through his production company, Lantern Films.