Netizen Voices: Official Tries to Manage Bird Evolution
The tension between development and environmental protection in China has been most keenly felt in...
great leap forward
Ai Xiaoming on Idealism and Totalitarianism
As part of “Talking About China,” his series of interviews with artists, activists,...
Mao Commemorated and Castigated, 40 Years Later
The Chinese Communist Party’s “Great Helmsman” Mao Zedong died on September 9,...
Netizen Voices: CCP Admits Mistakes Were Made
Today marks the 94th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Previous Founding...
Sensitive Words: Trying to Visit Lin Zhao’s Grave
Sensitive Words highlights keywords that are blocked from Sina Weibo search results. CDT...
Drawing the News: Exploratory Error
Last week, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) chalked up the Great Famine...
This Week on CDT, September 26, 2014
The Scottish vote for independence coincided with events that struck at one of China’s most...
Phrase of the Week: Exploratory Error
探索性错误 (tànsuǒxìng cuòwù): exploratory error Excuse for the famine which killed at least 18 million...
Defying Censors to Reveal Horrors of the Great Famine
Documentary film-maker Hu Jie’s body of work has focused on Party history from the 1950s to...
Slideshow: Life on a People’s Commune, 1975
Michael Rank was a British Council student in China from 1974-1976. During his time at Peking...
Sifting Myth from Reality in a Dark Chapter of History
For The Hindu, Ananth Krishnan is writing a series of articles exploring China “from Mao to...
Great Famine Toll Contested as Mao’s Birthday Nears
Chris Buckley notes efforts, as the 120th anniversary of Mao’s birth approaches, to...
Yang Jisheng: China’s Chronicler of Past Horrors
The Atlantic interviews Yang Jisheng, author of Tombstone, the award winning (and mainland banned)...
Don’t Say Millions Starved, Try “Nutritional Death”
A Chinese professor was recently attacked by netizens on Sina Weibo for underestimating the death...
River Crab Archive: The Death Toll from Mao’s Great Famine (Correction)
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...
Tibet and the CIA: The War We Cancelled
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...
Yan Lianke: On China’s State-Sponsored Amnesia
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...
Pinocchio with Chinese Characteristics
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...
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