Minds Unfettered and the Rival Spirits of May Fourth
Last week brought the 100th anniversary of the start of the May Fourth movement, a pivotal moment...
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Rights Lawyers Fear Tighter Control After Minister’s Talk
A speech given by Minister of Justice Zhang Jun at a conference attended by legal professionals...
Ai Xiaoming on Idealism and Totalitarianism
As part of “Talking About China,” his series of interviews with artists, activists,...
Ai Weiwei: “I Try to Talk Less”
In Berlin, Ian Johnson sat down with both writer Liao Yiwu, who has lived there since 2011, and Ai...
China Molds a Supercity Around Beijing
At The New York Times, Ian Johnson provides an in-depth look at the creation of Jing-Jin-Ji, a new...
Censors and Sensibility: Writing In and On China
On the Sinica podcast, Ian Johnson joins Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn, and David Moser to discuss...
Peter Hessler, Henry Paulson, and Chinese Censorship
At the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson discusses author Peter Hessler’s enormous...
Liu Yu: How to Be a Chinese Democrat
For the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson continues his series of interviews with Chinese...
Privatized Housing and Political Legitimacy in China
At The New York Times, Ian Johnson talks to Luigi Tomba of the Australian National University...
On Ilham Tohti: “They Don’t Want Moderate Uyghurs”
With a verdict against Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti expected on Tuesday following his trial for...
Yong Zhao on Education and Authoritarianism in China
At The New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow spoke with Yong Zhao, professor of education at the...
Sex in China: an Interview With Li Yinhe
At The New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson talks to noted sexologist Li Yinhe about public and...
Beyond the Dalai Lama: Woeser and Wang Lixiong
In a two-part interview at The New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson talks to Tibetan writer...
Campaign to Smother Tiananmen Anniversary Continues
Rights lawyers Tang Jingling and Liu Shihui are among the latest to be detained as the government...
Human Rights and Chinese Interests
At The Diplomat, the Project 2049 Institute’s Julia Famularo writes of the need to persuade...
What Pew Got Wrong About Chinese Atheism
Pew Research’s Global Attitudes Project recently conducted a global survey asking...
China To Invest Over $162 Billion On Shantytowns
Bloomberg reports that as part of renewed urbanization efforts to place more than 60 percent of...
Christianity and Chinese Exceptionalism
At The New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson reviews two volumes on the past and present of...
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