A shaky video of chengguan, street-level urban management enforcers, ripping down decorative Spring Festival couplets in Jiangsu’s Pei County went viral this past week. The controversy metastasized after the freelance journalist...
Life has not gotten easier for China’s LGBTQ+ communities. A looming demographic crisis has inspired calls to strengthen traditional family structures and produce more children, while rising nationalism and xenophobia have...
While the ongoing lockdown of Xi’an has thrust millions of people into health and food insecurity, online public outrage must contend with state media’s heart-warming stories of “noodles helping noodles.” Even Jia Pingwa, the...
China’s soft power initiatives are often derided by Western observers as ineffective or counterproductive. Over a hundred Confucius Institutes in the U.S. and Europe have been targeted as arms of the Chinese state and forced to...
Marvel blockbuster “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” has not yet been released in China, despite starring Hong Kong megastar Tony Leung and featuring extensive Mandarin dialogue. It is unclear why the movie has not...
Amid an ongoing crackdown on Uyghur culture in Xinjiang that has been called an effort to “re-engineer” the Uyghur identity and as a form of “cultural genocide,” state-run new media outlet The Paper (澎湃) this week tweeted a...
China’s Confucius Institutes (CI)–government-funded centers for research and language...
In an attempt to increase China’s soft power and boost its international image, the Chinese...
While addressing a meeting of religious representatives in Urumqi on Sunday, Zhang Chunxian, the...
At BloombergView, Adam Minter reports that the Chinese Communist Party is renewing a campaign to...
With Occupy Central and student activists entering day seven of pro-democracy demonstrations in...
As part of a continuing series on urbanization in China, Ian Johnson reports for The New York...
The following censored weibo, which show netizens digging into China’s deep literary and...
The South Korean government wants China to change its name for kimchi, Victor Mair notes at Slate,...
President Xi Jinping’s unannounced visit to Beijing’s Qingfeng Steamed Bun Restaurant...
Didi Kirsten Tatlow quotes Taiwan specialist Mark Harrison’s suggestions that China could learn from Taiwan in building a more inclusive Chinese identity. From the New York Times: Because what China cannot seem to do — and...
From Frog in a Wall blog: Recently Susan D. Blum’s charming and thoughtful Lies that Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) took up the challenge left by Smith and Hsu to study the rules, expectations...
The Danwei group on Youtube interviews three young Chinese who were born in China, lived abroad for extensive periods, and are now back in China to work. The interviewees talk about all sorts of aspects of their adjustment experiences, including the differences in culture and expectations, as well as the labeling they face as “Chinese” […]
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