CDT Editors’ Picks: The Best of 2018

Editors at CDT have provided their personal recommendations of readings about China – from CDT and elsewhere on the web – from 2018. Happy New Year! Dong Ge, Executive...

PKU Marxist Society Students Clash With Security

Following the detention of the president of a campus Marxist group at Peking University (PKU) and amid a state crackdown on student and labor activism, a group of PKU students gathered...

Minitrue: No Reporting on Mao Commemorative Events

The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect...

Former Top Security Official Sentenced to Life in Prison...

Ma Jian, China’s former vice minister of state security, has been sentenced to life in prison for corruption charges by a court in Dalian, Liaoning. Ma, who has ties to exiled...

Lawyer Wang Quanzhang Tried in Closed Hearing

Rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was put on trial in Tianjin on subversion charges Wednesday, after being held in incommunicado detention for almost three and a half years. No verdict...

PKU Marxist Detained on Way to Mao Birthday Memorial...

Qiu Zhanxuan, a leading Marxist student activist at Peking University (PKU), has reportedly been detained while en route to a celebration of the 125th birth anniversary of Mao Zedong....