Netizen Voices: Official Tries to Manage Bird Evolution
The tension between development and environmental protection in China has been most keenly felt in...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 22, 2016
The tension between development and environmental protection in China has been most keenly felt in...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 11, 2016
As part of “Talking About China,” his series of interviews with artists, activists,...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 8, 2016
The Chinese Communist Party’s “Great Helmsman” Mao Zedong died on September 9,...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jul 1, 2015
Today marks the 94th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Previous Founding...
by Anne Henochowicz | May 6, 2015
Sensitive Words highlights keywords that are blocked from Sina Weibo search results. CDT...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 29, 2014
Last week, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) chalked up the Great Famine...
by Meredith Godwin | Sep 26, 2014
The Scottish vote for independence coincided with events that struck at one of China’s most...
by Anne Henochowicz | Sep 24, 2014
探索性错误 (tànsuǒxìng cuòwù): exploratory error Excuse for the famine which killed at least 18 million...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 11, 2014
Documentary film-maker Hu Jie’s body of work has focused on Party history from the 1950s to...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 5, 2014
Michael Rank was a British Council student in China from 1974-1976. During his time at Peking...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 7, 2014
For The Hindu, Ananth Krishnan is writing a series of articles exploring China “from Mao to...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 18, 2013
Chris Buckley notes efforts, as the 120th anniversary of Mao’s birth approaches, to...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 20, 2013
The Atlantic interviews Yang Jisheng, author of Tombstone, the award winning (and mainland banned)...
by Cindy | Sep 10, 2013
A Chinese professor was recently attacked by netizens on Sina Weibo for underestimating the death...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 20, 2013
When something disappears from the Internet in China, netizens joke that it has been “river-crabbed,” a play on the euphemism “harmonized.” The River Crab Archive is a collection of blog post titles, weibo, and other materials...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 9, 2013
Jonathan Mirsky discusses books by CIA veteran John Kenneth Knaus and anthropologist Carole McGranahan on the history and consequences of CIA operations in Tibet, which contributed to Beijing’s enduring suspicion of...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 1, 2013
In the New York Times, writer Yan Lianke discusses the historical amnesia that is afflicting China’s young generation, many of whom are not familiar with major events in China’s recent past, including the famine...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jan 4, 2013
In this week’s Drawing the News, online cartoonists ring the alarm bell on new Internet regulations, corrupt officials go fishing, and marionettes take on Chinese characteristics. New Internet regulations, announced by state...