A former journalist, Leta Hong Fincher was the first American to receive a PhD in Sociology from Tsinghua University in Beijing. Her research there led to her first book, “Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China,” which examined rising gender inequalities in China...
Writer and activist Lü Gengsong (吕耿松), a longtime advocate for the banned China Democracy Party, was detained in July of 2014. He was formally arrested a month later for “subversion of state...
In 2016, citizen journalist Lu Yuyu and his then-girlfriend Li Tingyu were formally arrested after having been detained for over a month for chronicling “mass incidents” across China on their “Not News” (非新聞)...
Beijing-based publisher and film producer Geng Xiaonan was detained along with her husband and business partner Qin Chen on September 9 for suspected "illegal business operations." Geng had been an outspoken advocate...
Ever since the novel coronavirus emerged in China in late December, Chinese authorities have taken steps to control information about what is now a global pandemic responsible for 208,000 deaths worldwide. They have issued...
Activist and lawyer Xu Zhiyong has been detained, almost two months after he went missing following a police round-up of several activists on December 26. For the past 50 days, Xu has been in hiding, though he has continued...
Journalist and activist Sophia Huang Xueqin was released on Saturday, three months after her detention by Guangzhou police. She was transferred to the notorious “residential surveillance” system in November, and...
Following Beijing’s tradition of sentencing high-profile activists, rights lawyers, and dissidents during the week between Christmas and the New Year in an effort to minimize international media attention, more than 12...
Huang Qi, who became known as China’s first cyber dissident after his first arrest in 2000,...
In the run-up to the 30th anniversary of the June 4 military crackdown on peaceful protesters in...
Amid an ongoing crackdown on labor rights activism in China, several students from Peking...
Matters, a blockchain-powered media started by Initium editor Zhang Jieping, has published a...
The New Yorker this week features a piece of short fiction by Te-Ping Chen, drawing on her time as...
Last week, it was reported that labor activist Wei Zhili was detained in Guangdong and reportedly...
On November 14, 2018, social scientist, professor, and co-founder of Hong Kong’s 79-day...
A pair of essays this week illustrates different parts of the spectrum of methods with which...
Labor activist Shen Mengyu has been forcibly detained by authorities in Guangdong after supporting...
Two journalists working for the U.S. government-funded Voice of America were detained for about...
After successive waves over the past year, China’s #MeToo movement against sexual assault...
Beijing-based women’s rights activist Xiao Meili recently introduced her friend Ma Hu with the first two parts of a three-part profile. Part one told the story of Ma Hu’s childhood, and how she dealt with her gender and sexual...
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