Samuel Wade is Executive Editor for CDT English, and is based in Vancouver. You can also find him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.
At the Financial Times, Wen Jiabao trumpets China’s economic achievements and future prospects, three years on from the “eruption” of the global financial crisis. China has moved swiftly to fight the financial...
Read MoreSociologist and ethnographer Trica Wang recounts the experience of riding the Beijing subway disguised as a migrant worker while conducting fieldwork: I was dressed to blend in with Yang Jie, so I looked like a migrant street...
Read MoreAi Weiwei, “Descending Light”, by Taís Melillo.
Read MoreNPR’s Louisa Lim reports that rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong has returned home after being held overnight “to prevent him from petitioning [the] education bureau with non-Beijing parents”. Rumours of his detention,...
Read More(For our earlier coverage of Ai Weiwei’s release, see here.) Ai Weiwei’s release yesterday is to be followed by that of his cousin and driver, Zhang Jinsong. Three of Ai’s other associates remain missing,...
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