WWII Anniversary Amnesty and Xi’s Personal Power
To mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II next week, Chinese legislators are...
2008 Beijing Olympics
Beijing Wins Olympic Bid Despite Rights Concerns
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) this morning announced that China won its $1.5 billion...
Rights Advocates Oppose Beijing Winter Olympics Bid
On Friday July 31, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will meet in Kuala Lumpur to elect...
China: No Need for Open Internet?
While state media has cited the “near flawless organization” of the Beijing Olympics...
Minitrue: Yue Yuen Strike, Cao Shunli, More
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Lukewarm Response to Beijing Winter Olympic Bid
China’s Olympic Committee announced on Tuesday that it will bid against Germany, Kazakhstan,...
City Government Backs Hutong Revival
Oliver Wainwright reports for the The Guardian that Beijing Design Week architects have carried...
The Precarious Lives of China’s Rights Lawyers
At The Atlantic, Thomas Stevenson describes the personal and professional risks faced by China’s rights lawyers, often with little reward in terms of money or courtroom victories. Mr. Wen is an earnest man in his early 30s...
Peter Hessler’s ‘Strange Stones’ Reviewed
At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Pallavi Aiyar reviews Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West by Peter Hessler, former China correspondent for The New Yorker. She discusses the tight focus of Hessler’s writing on...
Everest a Spiritual Trophy for Wealthy Chinese
Wednesday was the 60th anniversary of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s historic climb to the top of Qomolangma, or Mount Everest, whose summit is neatly bisected by the border between China and Nepal. China Daily marked...
What China Doesn’t Get About Soft Power
In an Annie Hall moment at Foreign Policy, the inventor of the term “soft power” explains the shortcomings of Chinese and Russian efforts to cultivate it. From Joseph Nye: Even China’s soft-power triumphs, such...
SOEs, Rule of Law Among Hurdles for Clean Air Push
Beijing’s acting mayor has announced an array of new measures to combat air pollution in the city, following heavy smog that seeped hundreds of points off the scale this month. From Xinhua: The capital will take 180,000...
Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (27)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (26)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (25)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Netizen Voices: Welcome to Sparta!
As the 18th Party Congress fast approaches, Beijing residents have found their city under lock-down. Fruit knives are gone from store shelves. Ping pong balls are objects of suspicion. Security volunteers, distinguished by red...
Drawing the News: Sandy, Sparta and Beyond
This week, online cartoonists satirize CCTV coverage of Hurricane Sandy, “new” invasive security...
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