Person of the Week: Bao Tong
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by Josh Rudolph | Dec 14, 2017
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 31, 2017
In late 2015, veteran journalist Gao Yu was granted a sentence reduction and medical release from...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 24, 2017
Bao Tong, once an aide to former CCP General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, was arrested in Beijing on May...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 6, 2017
Warnings emerged on Thursday that Chinese democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu...
by Samuel Wade | Jun 29, 2017
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 18, 2016
Last week, staff at the high-profile reformist journal Yanhuang Chunqiu threatened a lawsuit after...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 30, 2015
Since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, a number of high-profile journalists and government...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 3, 2015
For McClatchy, Stuart Leavenworth profiles Bao Tong, former aide to Zhao Ziyang who was imprisoned...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 7, 2014
The demonstrations in Hong Kong have largely wound down on the streets, though in some areas...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 30, 2014
On Tuesday, Chinese authorities made the long-anticipated announcement of an investigation into...
by Samuel Wade | May 31, 2014
Yet more detentions have been added to the dozens already carried out ahead of the 25th...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 28, 2014
The Committee to Protect Journalists’ Bob Dietz reports the disappearance of veteran Chinese...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 26, 2013
With the 120th anniversary of his birthday just passed, much ambivalence exists amid the Chinese...
by Sophie Beach | Aug 9, 2013
The latest target in President Xi Jinping’s declared war on corruption is Liu Tienan, former...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 21, 2013
With the former flood of news about fallen Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai slowing to a trickle, rumors have rushed in to fill the gap, even in China’s own state media. According to some of the more recent mutterings,...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 18, 2013
Zhao Ziyang, former Party general secretary and national premier who opposed the use of force against Tiananmen protesters in 1989, was honored by visitors to his former home in Beijing on Thursday, the 8th anniversary of his...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 30, 2012
On NPR, Louisa Lim interviews Bao Tong, former aide to former CCP General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, about the current state of the Communist Party and the new generation of leadership who is slated to take power early next year:...
by Sophie Beach | Jun 14, 2012
For the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson meets with Bao Tong, former director of the Communist Party’s Office of Political Reform and the policy secretary for Zhao Ziyang, former CCP General Secretary. During the 1989...