A woman watches her husband fill out his ballot paper in the remote Guangdong fishing village of Wukan in March last year. Photo: AFP
A woman watches her husband fill out his ballot paper in the remote Guangdong fishing village of Wukan in March last year. Photo: AFP
Mimi Lau
Opinion

Opinion

Mimi Lau

A year after free election, grass-roots democracy in Wukan withers

First anniversary of village's free poll finds its residents riven by unresolved land seizures while an old mindset returns

A woman watches her husband fill out his ballot paper in the remote Guangdong fishing village of Wukan in March last year. Photo: AFP
A woman watches her husband fill out his ballot paper in the remote Guangdong fishing village of Wukan in March last year. Photo: AFP
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