Moats dug round Chinese villagers’ houses to drive them out

 This is the Kind of thing you expect to read about in Dickensian portraits of 19th-century capitalism. Yangji village in the southeastern city of Guangzhou has reportedly existed for some 900 years. As China’s economy exploded and the port city’s population ballooned to more than 12 million, real estate developers moved in and Yangji’s 4,000 residents found… Read More Moats dug round Chinese villagers’ houses to drive them out