Critics & Supporters Pressured Ahead of Bo Xilai Trial
Asahi Shimbun’s Nozomi Hayashi reports that both supporters and critics of fallen Chongqing...
Aug 15, 2013
Asahi Shimbun’s Nozomi Hayashi reports that both supporters and critics of fallen Chongqing...
Jun 14, 2013
The death of Chen Xitong, the former mayor of Beijing who presided over the 1989 June 4th crackdown and was later jailed for corruption, prompted no official condolences and little public mourning. Chen’s funeral this week...
Jun 5, 2013
Former mayor of Beijing Chen Xitong died on Sunday morning, but news of his death did not emerge until two days later, on the 24th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown which he oversaw. From South China Morning Post: Chen...
Jan 25, 2013
The South China Morning Post has poured lukewarm water on earlier reports, originating in state media, that the trial of fallen Chongqing Party Chief Bo Xilai will begin on Monday. When asked by reporters, a spokesman for...
Sep 28, 2012
Together with the long-awaited announcement of a start date for the 18th Party Congress, Xinhua revealed on Friday that Bo Xilai has been expelled from the Party and will now face criminal prosecution: Investigations found that...
Aug 9, 2012
With all eyes on Hefei for the murder trial of Gu Kailai on Thursday, and with speculation swirling over the likely fate of her husband and former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai, Foreign Policy’s Kevin Lu looks beyond the...
Jun 25, 2012
By Li Xuewen Translated by Little Bluegill Original text here. That Year, I was twelve years old...
May 29, 2012
Former Beijing Mayor Chen Xitong, who was in office during the 1989 protests and was later jailed for corruption, has called the June 4 military crackdown on the Beijing protests a “tragedy,” according to a new book...
May 28, 2012
Chen Xitong, who served as mayor of Beijing during the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown before he was dismissed from his post in 1995 and then sentenced to jail on corruption charges in what many saw as the result of a power struggle...
Jul 25, 2006
From AP, via seattlepi.nwsource.com: Former Beijing Mayor Chen Xitong, the highest-ranking Communist Party figure to be jailed for corruption, has been released on medical parole after serving eight years of his sentence, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Monday. Chen, once one of China’s most powerful men as a member of the party’s ruling Politburo, was […]