The Long Shadow of 2012’s Shifang Protests
Protests against a planned molybdenum copper plant in Shifang, Sichuan were hailed as a triumph of...
Weng’an riot
Word of the Week: Push-ups
俯臥撐 (fǔwòchēng): (do) push-ups This exercise took on new meaning in 2008 when police claimed the...
Punished Officials Bounce Back
At Economic Observer, Shen Nianzu and Chen Zhe describe how officials are often able to bounce...
China Jails Rioters, Criticises Officials
Six rioters in the June mass incident over a teenage girl’s death in Guizhou have been jailed by state officials. Many others are still detained and are waiting for their sentences. In addition, the local government has...
China Civil Society Report: Mass Incidents in China
The Nautilus Institute has published a report on social unrest in China, which discusses several recent incidents: We can identify several common characteristics in these incidents: first, they were all caused by accidents,...
The Weng’an Model: China’s Fix-it Governance
Written by Li Datong (李大同), former editor of Bingdian (Freezing Point), from openDemocracy: constant feature of the extraordinary social flux of contemporary China is the occurrence of serious clashes between the public and the...
Citizen Journalists Challenge Beijing
From The National: Chinese authorities and the country’s bloggers are waging an online battle over push-ups. This is no pre-Olympic fitness craze, but attempts by the government to keep a lid on dissent. Push-ups are what two...
Lessons in Media Management from Weng’an
While officials in the Guizhou town of Weng’an let rioters run rampant in major protests over the death of a local girl earlier this month, they appear to be doing quite a good job keeping journalists under control. ESWN...
Bao Tong: The Truth about China and the Olympic Games
Written by Bao Tong (鲍彤), former Director of the Office of Political Reform of the CCP Central Committee and Secretary to Zhao Ziyang, from AsiaNews: The Beijing Olympics are a great opportunity for China to show off its...
China Detains 100 in Connection with Weng’an Riot
From Reuters: Police in southwest China have detained 100 people, including 39 gang members, for their roles in a riot last month that saw the torching of government buildings and official cars, state media said on Monday. The...
Rumors and Riots
Written by Minxin Pei, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, from the International Herald Tribune: First, local Chinese authorities have repeatedly demonstrated their incompetence in handling...
The Discriminatory Complex Beneath Our Consciousness
A Chinese lawyer and journalist with online name William Schue wrote following post on his “Achilles’ Heel” blog: In another mysterious coincidence, “6.28” is double the number of...
The Censored Journals on Weng’an Riot by a Chinese Journalist
A Chinese journalist wrote a journal richly documenting what he saw and heard in Weng’an County after the riot. The journals were deleted from his blog by China’s Internet censors shortly afterwards, but was somehow recovered by...
Netizens’ Anger and Wit Against Online Censorship
Over the past two weeks, information and comments about the Weng’an riot have dominated Chinese chatrooms and blogosphere. The Xinhua news agency quickly put out its official version of the story, and while reporters from...
Liang Jing: China’s Plight Seen From the Weng’an Incident
Overseas political commentator Liang Jing wrote folliwing essay, translated by David Kelly: On the afternoon of June 28, a serious mass disturbance took place in Weng’an County, Guizhou Province. Tens of thousands of...
Chinese Bloggers Score a Victory Against the Government
From Wall Street Journal: Aggressive Chinese bloggers make an art of challenging Chinese government propaganda. This week, they can claim a victory. On Friday, Chinese authorities announced that four Communist Party, local...
Guizhou Riot Was Comprehensive Attack on CCP
BBC Newsnight editor Paul Mason writes on his blog: I have just been sent an excerpt of what my colleagues in BBC Monitoring have gleaned today from Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency…. “1600 on 28 June, the...
Chinese Bloggers Scale The ‘Great Firewall’ In Riot’s Aftermath
From Wall Street Journal: To slip past Internet censors squashing reports of a weekend riot in China’s Guizhou province, some bloggers have started writing backward. Some 30,000 rioters set fire to government buildings...
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