Report From Shanghai: The Eviction

September 15, 2005

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Individual and group protests over land use have snowballed across China as officials and private developers have carried out evictions. Sun Dalun shot this footage on the day he was forcibly evicted from the house in the heart of Shanghai where his family had lived for three generations.

Video Courtesy of: Joe Mullin, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley

Additional support for Report from Shanghai was provided by institutional and individual gifts from UC Berkeleys Institute of East Asian Studies, the Center for Chinese Studies, the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture, International and Area Studies, and the Program on Mass Communication. ORIAS contributed to outreach and distribution. Instructors: Todd Carrel and Christopher Beaver Technical Advisor: Milt Wallace

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