A manhunt for a murder suspect in Fujian ended on October 18 with the alleged killer’s death—to the dismay of many on the Chinese internet, where he had turned into an unlikely folk hero of sorts. Ou Jinzhong, 51, was accused of...
A vast online database of Chinese court rulings has just shrunk by over 9%. Though China Judgments Online (中国裁判文书网), launched in 2014 by the Supreme People’s Court, has always been translucent at best—it is supposed to exclude...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Variety’s John Hopewell and Emilio Mayorga list several key takeaways for the animation...
The recent announcement of further proposed reductions in the scope of the death penalty was...
In May, five members of the fringe millenarian Christian group Church of Almighty God, also known...
In the New York Times, Mara Hvistendahl writes an opinion piece about changing attitudes toward...
At China Change, journalist Shun Ni describes the negative changes she has experienced firsthand...
On May 28, a woman was killed by a group of people in a McDonald’s in Shandong after...
In his latest cartoon, Badiucao draws inspiration from graffiti artist Banksy’s famous image...
An explosion at an illegal gambling hall in Guizhou Province has killed 14 people, according to...
A massive police raid in Boshe Village in Lufeng City, Guangdong uncovered three tons of...
At the Paris Review, Molly Crabapple and British author Warren Ellis discuss how the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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