“Zero-COVID nail houses” (防疫钉子户, fángyì dīngzihù) are people who still adhere to strict virus prevention measures despite the end of the national zero-COVID policy. It is often used self-deprecatingly by “nail houses” themselves...
Lynette Ong, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, joins CDT to discuss her new book Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China. In Outsourcing Repression, Ong investigates the...
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei posted videos on Instagram showing Chinese authorities razing his...
Several local and law enforcement officials in Haikou, Hainan have been punished after a video...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Global Times’ Cao Siqi reports on the mysterious demolition (or relocation, according to...
Christianity has been steadily gaining followers in Wenzhou, Zhejiang since the mid 1800s; in a...
A district Communist Party secretary’s adulatory tribute to a group of demolition workers...
At Sinosphere, Didi Kirsten Tatlow describes efforts to preserve Beijing’s Ming-dynasty...
While China publishes up-to-date statistics on the new construction persistently adding to its...
Frenzied demolition and construction produced an estimated two billion tons of waste across China...
Wired profiles French photographer Eric Leleu and his project Subtitles—an examination,...
On Wednesday, as the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue got underway in Washington D.C., the Chinese character 拆 chai was found spray-painted on the gateposts of the Chinese embassy there. The graffiti has been...
China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs has ordered an investigation of instructions to tear down buildings at a Buddhist temple complex in Xi’an. The controversial demolitions were ordered in preparation...
Netizens don’t just write colorful comments on Weibo critiquing Chinese politics and society. Many...
Liang Sicheng is known as the “father of Chinese architecture.” He and his architect wife, Lin Huiyin, lived in an ancient courtyard home in Beijing from which they fought for the preservation of Beijing’s...
Evan Osnos’ latest Letter from China in The New Yorker explains the often short-term thinking behind much of China’s development, in contrast with the long view often discerned behind some grander projects. In his...
Caixin presents a photo gallery showing the site of a school for migrant workers in Beijing, which was suddenly demolished on Monday: Parents of migrant students were dismayed to find that over ten of the school’s...
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