Samuel Wade (@samuel_wade@mstdn.ca) is Executive Editor for CDT English, and is based in Vancouver.
An essay published by Caixin magazine describes the cases of two persecuted scholars, with thinly veiled allusion to contemporary China. Both men were imprisoned, accused of insanity and finally executed. Emperor...
Read MoreEvan Osnos’ Letter from China at The New Yorker accuses authorities of “papering over” enormous and growing inequality, rather than taking serious steps to address it. A couple of months ago, the Beijing...
Read MoreHu Jintao’s visit to Moscow this week saw a push to conclude a gas deal between the world’s largest energy producer and its largest consumer. The 30 year deal, potentially worth a trillion dollars, would see up to 70...
Read MoreDaniel K Gardner explains his reaction to an Al Jazeera report on beef-flavoured pork sold as real beef: Consequently, a passage in the Analects, one that I had never given much attention to, for the first time jumped off the...
Read MoreThe Man With the Characters, by Mark Hobbs.
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