Cindy Carter
Cindy Carter is Deputy Editor for CDT English, and is based in Los Angeles.
Weibo User Banned After Reporting Nationalist Pundit Hu Xijin for Illegal VPN Use
Posted by Cindy Carter | Nov 30, 2023
Current affairs blogger Xiang Dongliang has had his Weibo account banned for reporting Hu Xijin, a nationalist blogger and retired editor-in-chief of the Global Times, for using a VPN to circumvent the Great Firewall of China...
Read MoreTranslation: Lu Dewen—“Bureaucratic Formalism Has Made It Impossible for Local Cadres to Get Anything Done”
Posted by Cindy Carter | Nov 27, 2023
In a recent essay, Lu Dewen (吕德文, Lǚ Déwén)—a sometimes controversial Wuhan University sociologist whose research focuses on rural governance—argues that bureaucratic formalism, meaningless busywork, and technological hegemony...
Read MorePhoto: 扬州 东关街, by song zhen
Posted by Cindy Carter | Nov 27, 2023
扬州 东关街, by song zhen (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Read MorePhoto: Le bouilleur d’eau, by Gongashan
Posted by Cindy Carter | Nov 24, 2023
Le bouilleur d’eau, by Gongashan (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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