Over the summer, five scandals dominated Chinese social media: the stabbing of a Chinese school bus attendant in an anti-Japanese outburst; the suicide of a young diver after her coach raped her; the contamination of cooking oil...
A recent scandal involving the organized theft and trafficking of thousands of corpses that were later processed into bone-graft material for dental procedures has prompted horror among the Chinese public, and tremendous...
On the Chinese internet, wall-to-wall state media coverage of the Chinese Olympic delegation’s departure for the 2024 Paris Games has been met with a shrug. With 405 Chinese athletes slated to compete across 236 events,...
A massive food-safety scandal over the “open industry secret” of using fuel tanker-trucks to transport cooking oil and other edible products—without the tankers being washed or sanitized in between—is still generating a flood of...
A bombshell exposé from state-media outlet Beijing News about the use of fuel tanker-trucks to transport cooking oil and other edible products—without the tankers being washed or disinfected between transports—has snowballed...
It is well known that many Chinese local governments are cash-strapped, burdened by excessive debt, and searching for ways to replenish their depleted coffers. Reports abound of local governments, utilities, and even police...
Toys riffing on China’s hottest online idiom, “calling a rat a duck,” were yanked from online shelves this past week, a sign of the idiom’s continued political sensitivity. The tongue-in-cheek saying “calling a rat a duck”...
The Environmental Justice Foundation, an environmental NGO based in London, released a new report, titled “The Ever-Widening Net: Mapping the Scale, Nature and Corporate Structures of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The revelation of a scandal involving the illegal distribution of over US$88 million in improperly...
In December 2013, Xi Jinping launched an ongoing presidential image-crafting campaign at a...
At The New Yorker, Christina Larson looks at the Chinese public’s distrust of genetically...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
At the Los Angeles Times, Michael Meyer, author of “In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland...
In 2013, when Shuanghui International bought Smithfield Farms, America’s largest pork...
At the Guardian, Jonathan Kaiman looks at the town of Nanzhuang, south of Beijing, where hundreds...
DPA International reports that approximately half of all Chinese food plants inspected in 2014 has...
Cartoon band Whale Island (鲸鱼岛乐队) released its first single just after the Qingming festival, also...
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