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On February 9, 2010, Tan Zuoren was tried in the Chengdu Intermediate People’s Court for the crime of inciting subversion against the state. Ai Xiaoming and her team recorded the three days before and after the verdict, the mindsets of Tan Zuoren’s friends and relatives, and how the lawyers carried out their work. This film is in Chinese with Chinese subtitles.

In June 2010, scholars and activists Xu Zhiyong, Teng Biao, Wang Gongquan, Li Xiongbing, Li Fangping, Xu Youyu and Zhang Shihe (Tiger Temple) initiated the signing of the “Citizen's Pledge”, which called on Chinese citizens to “abide by principles of democracy, and the rule of law, safeguard the rights and livelihood of the people, and promote good governance”. On May 29, 2012, Dr. Xu Zhiyong, one of the founders of the pro-democracy movement “Open Constitution Initiative” (Gongmeng), published an article entitled “China's New Citizen Movement”, officially launching the <a href=“https://web.archive.org/web/20121226221847/http://biweekly.hrichina.org/article/1575”>“New Citizen Movement”</a>. The goal of the New Citizens Movement is a free China governed by democracy and rule of law, a vibrant civil society, and a new national spirit of “freedom, justice, and love”. It aims to promote political and social transformation from authoritarianism to constitutionalism, and Chinese people will be treated as citizens, not subjects of the ruling class. Activities of the New Citizen Movement include advocating for equal rights in education, public disclosure of officials' properties, and organizing local citizen gatherings. (For more information on the New Citizens Movement, see the <a href=“https://cmcn.org/”>Chinese Citizens Movement </a>website. Organizers and participants in the New Citizens Movement have been subjected to repression and persecution. On July 5, 2012, several hundred parents gathered at the Ministry of Education's Petitioning Office, displaying banners and chanting slogans demanding that the government protect migrant children’s right to education, before being stopped by police, who also beat them. As a result of this and other advocacy activities, New Citizens Movement organizers Xu Zhiyong, Zhao Changqing, and Ding Jiaxi were arrested in 2013 and charged with gathering a crowd to disrupt order in a public place, and their cases were heard for the first time at different levels of court in Beijing on January 22, 2014, on the eve of the Chinese New Year. All were sentenced to jail. This documentary includes footage of the parents' protest in July 2012, and outside the courthouse at Xu Zhiyong's trial on January 22, 2014, as well as interviews with family members of the arrested activists, their lawyers, and academics, and supporters of the movement.On the day of his trial, hundreds of people showed up outside the courthouse in support, invoking Article 35 of the Constitution to point out that the case was an unfair trial that violated citizens' freedom of speech and expression. In the film, Xu Zhiyong says in an interview that the New Citizens Movement wants to solve social issues through judicial processes, and that he believes it is important to take into account the perspectives of different stakeholders. Even with such a moderate stance, the authorities still harshly suppressed him and portrayed him as an enemy of the state. Scholar Guo Yuhua commented on the case : “If we wait for a ready-made civil society, there is none. Activism is to open up space where there is none, to create gaps where there are no gaps, and to expand it gradually.”

Yao Lifa, a teacher from Hubei, was an independent candidate for the 2003 General Election of Deputies to the National People’s Congress. This documentary records the process in which Yao publicized and educated the public on election laws, and his experience with the grassroot electoral campaign. This documentary also reflects the budding grassroot awareness of civil rights in China through voices from the media and ordinary people. This film is in Chinese with Chinese subtitles.

In the fall of 2005, residents of Taishi Village became increasingly frustrated and angered by the sale of land by village officials; hundreds of villagers signed a petition calling for the removal of the village chief. The villagers occupied the village committee’s financial office and expressed their demands through sit-ins and other forms of protests. The government dispatched the police to arrest village activists, but the villagers insisted on starting a formal recall process. The government finally sent a team to the village to verify the signatures for the petition.  <i>The Taishi Village</i> recall incident generated attention from Chinese and foreign media, and caused uneasiness among local government officials. On September 12, 2005,  police arrested dozens of villagers who were participating in a sit-in in the village committee room. Despite the pressure, villagers elected a committee to remove the village committee director. The government then dispatched more men to exert pressure, forcing elected members to withdraw one by one. Hired patrol teams eventually drove lawyers and reporters out of the village. This documentary records the protest scenes and tragic ending of Taishi village’s movement for autonomy, and presents the surging rights consciousness in rural areas in Guangdong. This incident demonstrates villagers’ ability to exercise their right to vote and the government’s inertial approach to grassroots democracy movements.  This documentary is in Chinese with Chinese subtitles.

Wukan is a village in Luwei City, under the jurisdiction of Shanwei City, Guangdong Province. From 2011 to 2016, Wukan villagers have continued to fight to protect their land and fight for villagers' rights. Facing strong pressure from the government, some even paid with their lives. In the process, the villagers had elected their own villagers' committee by one person, one vote to practice their democratic rights. Although the protests were eventually suppressed, the impact was far-reaching. Ai Xiaoming rushed to the scene at the beginning of the Wukan incident and left this precious record.