On the evening of May 15th, Peking University (PKU) students held an on-campus gathering to protest the school’s construction of a wall separating the Wanliu student dormitories from the faculty and staff areas. Protesters...
On Thursday, May 5, the Politburo Standing Committee decreed that there is no place for those who would “distort, doubt, or deny” China’s “dynamic zero-COVID” policy. In response, Shanghai’s already-stringent...
Beijing’s glaring wealth inequality became the talk of the nation after a chart comparing two coronavirus patients’ daily itineraries went viral last week. One patient lived a life of sheer luxury, while the other worked over 30...
In China, 2021 has been a year for the history books or, more precisely, their revision. In March, the launch of a hotline to report “historical nihilism” presaged a broader campaign against challenges to the Party’s version of...
A slate of independent candidates for Beijing’s district-level People’s Congress have announced that they are suspending their grassroots campaign due to fears for their personal safety in the wake of police threats and...
Hong Kong’s civil society is buckling under the weight of the National Security Law. Non-profits, media outlets, and advocacy groups are being forced shut, or else making the difficult decision to shut themselves down before the...
Liu Li has been petitioning for over a decade on behalf of her father, who suffered an injury at work in 2009. As a result, she has suffered reprisals including a conviction for “disrupting social order,” incarceration at the...
On July 1, the Chinese Communist Party will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding. The Party was actually founded on July 23 but the mixup, although acknowledged, has never been rectified—perhaps because the date has a...
On Friday, China reported only a single new COVID-19 infection outside the outbreak’s epicenter of Wuhan, which saw 74 new cases, with the additional exception of 24 cases found in people returning from abroad. The same...
This week, the Beijing-based Unirule Institute of Economics announced that it would close after...
Xinhua last week reported on a new regulatory document from the Beijing Municipal Commission of...
Three social workers were detained last week in police raids as China’s crackdown on labor...
Last week, city authorities in Beijing released a “Municipal Action Plan for Further...
At around 1pm on Thursday, an explosive device was detonated outside the U.S. embassy in Beijing....
The following essay by Peking University senior Yue Xin shares her observations of social...
Gao Yan was a Chinese literature student at Peking University who killed herself in 1998 after her...
At The New York Times, Javier C. Hernández and photographer Gilles Sabrié present a guided tour of...
China’s central leaders have been waging an official “war on pollution” for nearly four years,...
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