On August 9, Jianjiao Buluo or “Pepper Tribe,” an online platform dedicated to female workers, announced that it will cease updating content and will permanently close all properties linked to its official account....
Wuhan Central Hospital ophthalmologist Dr. Li Wenliang was punished for warning about a mysterious “SARS-like virus” before the Wuhan government or Beijing had acknowledged an emerging viral epidemic. Days later, while working...
The 1998 suicide of Peking University student Gao Yan after her alleged rape by a professor has...
Microblogging websites like Weibo, once regarded as unprecedented platforms for free expression in...
In 2013, Google chairman Eric Schmidt predicted that widespread encryption offered “a real...
Human Rights Watch released its 2015 World Report on Thursday, covering more than 90 countries in...
As Fourth Plenum legal reforms promise to increase citizens’ powers to sue the authorities,...
Human Rights Watch’s China Director Sophie Richardson writes at The Globe and Mail that with...
This week Beijing released a key policy document known as the “white paper” that...
The Economist reports on China’s efforts to let just enough “sunshine” into the...
The Economist reports on “a survey conducted in recent months in 17 countries for BBC World...
The detained social media celebrity and venture capitalist Charles Xue said on state television...
At ChinaFile, Ouyang Bin talks to former Southern Weekly editor Chang Ping about the New Year censorship stand-off at the newspaper, China’s changing media climate, and prospects for reform under Xi Jinping. Why does it...
While lawyers acting for Wen Jiabao’s family threatened legal action against The New York Times following David Barboza’s investigation of their business dealings, the premier himself has taken a different tack....
Three China-based foreign journalists’ groups issued a joint statement this week expressing alarm at recent cases of harassment, in some of which official security forces were involved. At Global Times, Liu Linlin...
Published in the Times Argus: The Chinese businessman battled for years to get cities to reveal their budgets, but his quest seemed quixotic in a country notorious for keeping citizens in the dark. Then China did what would once...
Earlier, CDT posted an excerpt of a September 24th Southern Weekend editorial on a recent communiqué from Central Commission for Discipline Inspection that announced officials are “required to report all records pertaining...
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