Minitrue: Strictly Manage News on Hunan Shooting
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 22, 2017
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 16, 2017
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Cindy | Jun 19, 2017
Variety’s John Hopewell and Emilio Mayorga list several key takeaways for the animation...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 4, 2014
The recent announcement of further proposed reductions in the scope of the death penalty was...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 21, 2014
In May, five members of the fringe millenarian Christian group Church of Almighty God, also known...
by Sophie Beach | Jul 8, 2014
In the New York Times, Mara Hvistendahl writes an opinion piece about changing attitudes toward...
by Natalie Ornell | Jun 22, 2014
At China Change, journalist Shun Ni describes the negative changes she has experienced firsthand...
by Sophie Beach | Jun 9, 2014
On May 28, a woman was killed by a group of people in a McDonald’s in Shandong after...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 21, 2014
In his latest cartoon, Badiucao draws inspiration from graffiti artist Banksy’s famous image...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 13, 2014
An explosion at an illegal gambling hall in Guizhou Province has killed 14 people, according to...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 2, 2014
A massive police raid in Boshe Village in Lufeng City, Guangdong uncovered three tons of...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 16, 2013
At the Paris Review, Molly Crabapple and British author Warren Ellis discuss how the...
by Sophie Beach | Jun 28, 2013
Li Guanfeng (also known as Li Tianyi), the 17-year-old son of high-profile People’s Liberation Army singer Li Shuangjiang, was arrested in February on suspicion of involvement with a gang rape. Li is now set to go on...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 2, 2013
Qiu Riren, an 80-year-old man tried for a murder he committed in 1967, has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison for the crime. Qiu’s case became the focus of attention in China as it is one of the only...
by Josh Rudolph | Mar 7, 2013
On her A Big Enough Forest blog, Liz Carter has translated an essay by social critic Li Chengpeng on the recent kidnapping-turned-murder of baby Xu Haobo. In the essay, Li also refers to the toddler who suffered multiple...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 6, 2013
In 2011, the death of a toddler after being hit by a car while bystanders stood by but didn’t help generated outrage on Chinese social media and raised questions about Good Samaritanism in Chinese society. These questions...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 29, 2013
The case against Li Yan, a woman who is on death row for killing her abusive husband, has sparked an outcry over her treatment and that of other domestic violence survivors in China. The Guardian has the background of her case:...
by Sophie Beach | Dec 15, 2012
On Friday in Henan Province, a man walked into a primary school and stabbed 22 children. None were killed. The same day, in Newtown, Connecticut, a man armed with at least three semi-automatic weapons shot his way into an...