anniversaries

Christmas as Usual: CCP Detains Human Rights Defenders

While many look forward to relaxing during the December holiday season, the CCP typically leverages foreign distraction during this period to crack down on Chinese human rights defenders. Among those targeted in a recent wave of...

Tiananmen Square: 23 Years Later

Today marked the 23rd anniversary of the military crackdown on protesters in Beijing, and, as usual, the government kept a tight rein on online speech, the media, and political dissidents and activists. More surprising was the...

Police on Alert in China Ahead of Riot Anniversary

As the one-year anniversary of the July 5 Xinjiang riots approaches, police are on high alert. From the Associated Press: Teams of police armed with guns and batons patrolled streets in the western region of Xinjiang on Sunday,...

Three Generations View China At 60

NPR is running a three-part series to mark the upcoming 60th anniversary of the PRC: As the country approaches its anniversary, NPR asks three of China’s most astute observers for their perspectives. They are best-selling...

In Today’s Headlines, an Absence Speaks a Thousand Words

For China Media Project, David Bandurski reads between the lines of official media reporting of the 20th anniversary of June 4th: The Beijing Daily article paints an important, if impressionistic, picture of current efforts to...

10 Year Anniversary: May 8, 1999

While other historic dates are getting more press time this year, the ten-year anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade by NATO missiles, and subsequent protests in China, passed relatively quietly last...

China Marks 90th Anniversary of ‘May Fourth Movement’

Danwei looks at domestic magazine coverage of the 90th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement: “Youth” is the day’s keyword. May 4 was designated National Youth Day in 1949 to commemorate the students in the...

China Cracks Down Ahead of Sensitive Anniversaries

Peter Ford of the Christian Science Monitor reports on recent crackdowns and the tightening of government control in China: Chinese political reformers, who had hoped for a more relaxed atmosphere after the 2008 Olympic Games...

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