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From Reuters: A Chinese court jailed an editor of a news portal for six years on Monday for inciting subversion by publishing anti-government essays, his lawyer said, the latest case in a government crackdown on dissent. The Intermediate People’s Court in Ningbo in the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang convicted Zhang Jianhong, better known by […]
Read MoreNational Public Radio reports on the few remaining women in China who have bound feet: Wang Lifen was just 7 years old when her mother started binding her feet: breaking her toes and binding them underneath the sole of the foot with bandages. After her mother died, Wang carried on, breaking the arch of her […]
Read MoreRFA Mandarin service broadcast an essay by Bao Tong on Friday about the new property law, and has now posted a translation on RFA Unplugged: The Property Law of the People’s Republic of China was passed by a majority of 97% in the National People’s Congress. What does this mean? It means the final bankruptcy […]
Read MoreIn The Atlantic Monthly, James Fallows has written about reality TV in China. The full article is available by subscription only, but you can watch subtitled video clips of the shows here. From the article: Right now the curse of Chinese TV, apart from its being state-controlled and de facto censored, is the proliferation of […]
Read MoreAsia Times has another review of James Mann’s The China Fantasy: James Mann, longtime analyst of Sino-US relations, has written a new book, The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression, in which he plays the role of an observer attempting to prick our collective conscience and ask whether the US is committing […]
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