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The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
by Anne Henochowicz | Feb 4, 2016
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 11, 2015
Following the series of blasts that killed more than 150 near Tianjin’s port on August...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 18, 2015
A Fujian court has awarded $186,000 compensation to former death row prisoner Nian Bin for the...
by Josh Rudolph | Oct 29, 2014
After a deadly clash that arose out of a months running land dispute in Jinning, Yunnan Province...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 7, 2014
The following censorship instruction, issued to the media by government authorities, has been...
by Natalie Ornell | Apr 18, 2014
As companies from Wal-Mart to the world’s largest shoe-maker, Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings,...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 19, 2014
Local authorities in Gansu have rejected a 16-year-old’s request for an apology and symbolic...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 25, 2013
AP reports that Wu Hongfei, singer for the Beijing-based rock outfit Happy Avenue (幸福大街), has been detained for comments that she posted on her Weibo account: Police have detained an activist singer who wrote that she wanted to...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 24, 2013
After two recent stabbings in Beijing—one of which took two lives (including a U.S. citizen) on July 17 at a downtown shopping mall, the other claimed one fatality on July 22 at the same Carrefour outlet that supplied the murder...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 23, 2013
Beijing airport bomber Ji Zhongxing is in custody in an undisclosed location following surgery to amputate his left hand, injured in Saturday’s blast. The explosion appears to have been a desperate protest after eight...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 15, 2013
Tang Hui won a court appeal on Monday in the latest chapter of a saga that began in 2006, with the kidnapping, rape and beating of her then 11-year-old daughter. Two men were subsequently sentenced to death, four to life in...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 15, 2013
After three successive days of demonstrations (see pictures at Tea Leaf Nation and Global Voices), protesters in Jiangmen, Guangdong won a written guarantee on Monday that a planned uranium processing plant nearby would not go...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 24, 2012
Forced demolitions have been labelled China’s greatest source of social unrest; Amnesty International reports that evictions have given rise to over 40 self-immolation protests in recent years. At 2Non—”Non Fiction...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 18, 2012
Adam Minter describes a dramatic twist in the tale of Peng Yu, whose prosecution for aiding an elderly woman became a potent symbol of modern China’s social decay and exerted a deep chilling effect over would-be Good...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 26, 2011
At China Real Time Report, law professor Stanley Lubman describes a recent Sino-American legal exchange presentation given in San Francisco. The talks covered issues such as appropriate levels of financial compensation and the...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 21, 2011
In the shadow of a Foshan toddler’s death and amid widespread discussion of its causes and implications, Shanghaiist reports a similar incident in Sichuan province. According to one eyewitness, a truck driver accidentally...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 20, 2011
Shanghai resident Lu Weiming and his wife blame a local waste collection station for their son’s disability and their daughter’s death. South China Morning Post reports the couple’s repeated legal defeats in...
by Sophie Beach | Jul 31, 2011
Many families of victims who died in the Wenzhou high-speed rail crash have refused government offers of compensation. But ten families have accepted. From AP: Families who agreed will receive about $142,000 for each victim who...