As state media rings with Xi Jinping’s pronouncement that “persistence is victory” in Shanghai’s fight against Omicron—now sometimes referred to as “The Battle to Protect Shanghai”—a different martial metaphor reigns on social...
Recently, a recording of a five-minute phone call made by an elderly Shanghai man to his neighborhood committee has been circulating on the Chinese internet and social media. During the call, the man [identified here only as...
The Chinese Communist Party Central Committee’s Politburo has met this week and set the date...
Jonathan Sudworth reports on his encounter with Xiao Wunan, a former high-ranking CCP official who...
China’s Communist Party leaders issued a memo in April known as Document No. 9 to...
A few anonymous essays brought misfortune to a provincial cadre. On July 9, 2008, Rao Wenwei, the...
The planned copper plant in Sichuan Province over which protesters and riot police clashed earlier this week has been cancelled, and those detained during the confrontation released. From Keith Bradsher at The New York Times:...
Don Weinland at Global Voices Online looks at the breakdown of the “cadre labor participation” system in China: A Chinese scholar is asking why the Chinese socialist tradition of “cadre labor participation” is no...
In the past, official selection put strong emphasis on educational history, and not on actual capabilities of potential cadres. However, statements from officials like Wang Yang, Secretary of the CCP’s Guangdong Committee,...
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