4th year Asian Studies major at UC Berkeley with a focus on China and Political Science. Particularly interested in gender construction, political dissent, nationalism, and socioeconomic polarization in the PRC. Likes to run, fence, and otherwise work out. Loves to eat.
By Jonathan Landreth for the Times Online: With his maximum six months detention just ended, the dissident writer Liu Xiaobo remained in custody in an undisclosed Beijing location today as authorities continued to hold him in...
Read MoreScholarly debate continues over the meaning and significance of the words of Confucius, China’s most influential moral and political philosopher. Yu Dan’s newest book, Confucius from the Heart, is drawing criticism...
Read MoreXinhua has published a list of national and regional essay questions for the recently-concluded 2009 college entrance exams. Aside from determining the fates of millions of young Chinese students aspiring to university, these...
Read MoreAs reported earlier on CDT, the lawyer representing Liu Xiaobo has called on authorities to either release the Charter ’08 co-author or formally charge him. The Dui Hua Human Rights Journal has compiled a list of...
Read MoreA preliminary investigation into the Chengdu bus fire which killed 25 people on Friday has not eliminated the possibility of sabotage, according to a city official. From Xinhua: Sabotage can not be ruled out as the cause of a...
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