What to do when the law and basic humanity are in opposition? The Chinese internet has an answer: “Aim the rifle an inch higher” (枪口抬高一厘米, qiāngkǒu táigāo yī límǐ). The phrase is shorthand for subverting orders that violate...
This week, Vietnam’s Communist Party General Secretary To Lam wrapped up a three-day visit to China for his first official foreign visit since becoming his country’s top leader. Lam recently replaced his predecessor Nguyen Phu...
Jeremy Wallace, associate professor of Government at Cornell University, joined CDT to discuss his new book, Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China. In a wide-ranging conversation,...
Chinese protesters shot down insinuations that their demonstrations this past week were controlled by shadowy “foreign forces,” a tactic often used by the state and its defenders to strip dissent of its legitimacy. Dozens of...
On July 1, weeks of secretive preparations for the Party’s centenary culminated in a massive ceremony in Tiananmen Square punctuated by a martial speech delivered by Xi Jinping. Xi warned that anyone who dare bully, oppress, or...
In China, the #metoo movement against sexual harassment and rape had a slow start, due to both...
A “Christian theme park” in Hunan, the home province of Mao Zedong, is drawing intense...
Last week, the script of a speech delivered by Xi Jinping at the Central Party School back in...
The Economist examines the Party’s ongoing adoption of Confucianism alongside its own...
A long-running and unusually crowded discussion at ChinaFile addresses the question “Is Mao...
Donald Clarke translates three questions from Shen Kui, former vice dean of Peking University Law...
Bloomberg’s John Boudreau reports calls within Vietnam’s Communist Party for greater...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The Global Times reports on an exhibition co-sponsored by the State Archives Administration of...
At The Atlantic, Matt Schiavenza surveys the dynamic 60-year relationship between Beijing and...
In a newly published talk from last month’s TEDGlobal 2013 conference, venture capitalist Eric X. Li reprises his defense of China’s one-party system, arguing that contrary to Western assumptions, it is characterized...
In his first interview since receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in December, Mo Yan talks to Der Spiegel’s Bernhard Zand about his work, his political views, and his critics. SPIEGEL: Unspeakable things happen in...
While current president Hu Jintao may not give up the reins of China’s military to his successor right away, Jane Perlez of The New York Times wonders what Xi Jinping’s longstanding ties to the People’s...
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