One of Fang Fang’s most outspoken detractors had a change of heart when those she had maligned came to her aid. Li Dan, a 31-year-old woman from Sichuan, used to attack Fang Fang and her supporters incessantly. She was not...
A Taliban spokesperson’s claim that China is a “friend” incited an online furore after nationalist Chinese media figures shared the statement approvingly. “We have been to China many times and we have good relations with them,”...
The term “historical nihilism”—which has long been used to label accounts that challenge Party-approved orthodoxy—is again back in headlines and official crosshairs with the launch of a hotline allowing people to report those...
Beginning on January 25, writer and Wuhan local Fang Fang chronicled life from inside what has been called “the largest quarantine in human history.” As public anger was heating up over official opacity and inaction...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
At China Heritage, Geremie Barmé has translated a stream of responses to the recent suspension of...
Li Rui, a former personal secretary to Mao Zedong turned fierce critic of the authoritarian leader...
Amid rising concerns of curtailed academic freedoms, U.S. universities are increasingly closing...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
After Cambridge University Press briefly agreed to Chinese authorities’ request to remove...
Late last week, news came that Cambridge University Press had agreed to remove 315 articles from...
At Startup Grind on Medium (h/t Matthew Sheehan’s Chinafornia newsletter), Panpan Wang...
This year marks 50 years since Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution, the mass political...
On Friday, The Washington Post’s Simon Denyer noted Chinese bookstores’ removal or...
The Chinese Communist Party’s “Great Helmsman” Mao Zedong died on September 9,...
Columnist and psychologist Tang Yinghong (唐映红) has used his disciplinary expertise (often in...
On May 16, the 50th anniversary of the start of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Hong...
China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution began exactly fifty years ago today. Unleashed...
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