While many look forward to relaxing during the December holiday season, the CCP typically leverages foreign distraction during this period to crack down on Chinese human rights defenders. Among those targeted in a recent wave of...
Christmas celebration is coming under increasing official scrutiny in mainland China as the...
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
At BloombergView, Adam Minter reports that the Chinese Communist Party is renewing a campaign to...
With Christmas nearly upon us, The Guardian’s Oliver Wainright takes us to Yiwu, Zhejiang,...
A roundup of online political cartoons from the past week. Click any image to launch the slideshow...
Reporting on his observations from a factory in Shijiao, Junkyard Planet author Adam Minter...
The AP reports that a Christian congregation’s Christmas meeting in Nanle county, Henan...
Mark Fisher from the Washington Post reported on eight fascinating facts on Christmas in China, which included a ‘war on Christmas’ and Santa’s sisters. Fisher also reports on why Santa Claus in China is always...
China’s hunger for materials and its powerful economies of scale can make a viable business of recycling what would occupy landfills elsewhere. At The Atlantic, Adam Minter describes the town of Shijiao, whose factories...
A high-ranking official has spoken out against a resurgence of religious practice among Party members which breaches regulations and, he claimed, threatens the CCP’s unity. From The Associated Press: Party members are...
This year, 96% of artificial Christmas trees in the U.S. are expected to come from China. A 15-cent per tree tax on fresh trees imposed by the Department of Agriculture and intended to help fund promotion of the home-grown...
A new addition to the catalogue of strangeness caused by China’s economic rise: Harrods and Selfridges will open their Christmas departments tomorrow, on Thursday, July 28th, just short of five months before C-Day itself,...
Several foreign media reports look at the rising popularity of celebrating Christmas in China. From the BBC: Only an estimated 2% of China’s population are practising Christians so, for people such as Ms Liu, there are no...
Barbara Demick reports for the LA Times, from Dongguan, China: Growing up in the Chinese countryside with only an elementary school education, Yang Yanjun had never heard of Christmas until she landed a job painting pink-cheeked...
Wishes are hung on a Christmas tree in downtown Fuzhou, by *mangu* wanders by mistake…
From Seattletimes.com: It was the week before Christmas, and the crush of shoppers elbowing their way past stalls at the Tian Yi market would have been familiar to holiday gift buyers anywhere. So would the brightly colored baubles, red and gold bows, and strings of flashing lights from which the crowds were choosing: After all, […]
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