A Singapore paper’s publication of a blistering opinion piece criticizing Xi Jinping did not escape notice on Weibo, where netizens surreptitiously praised it. Titled “The Economy Is The Problem, Its Root Is Politics,” the...
The tension between development and environmental protection in China has been most keenly felt in...
As part of “Talking About China,” his series of interviews with artists, activists,...
The Chinese Communist Party’s “Great Helmsman” Mao Zedong died on September 9,...
Today marks the 94th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Previous Founding...
Sensitive Words highlights keywords that are blocked from Sina Weibo search results. CDT...
Last week, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) chalked up the Great Famine...
The Scottish vote for independence coincided with events that struck at one of China’s most...
探索性错误 (tànsuǒxìng cuòwù): exploratory error Excuse for the famine which killed at least 18 million...
Documentary film-maker Hu Jie’s body of work has focused on Party history from the 1950s to...
Michael Rank was a British Council student in China from 1974-1976. During his time at Peking...
For The Hindu, Ananth Krishnan is writing a series of articles exploring China “from Mao to...
Chris Buckley notes efforts, as the 120th anniversary of Mao’s birth approaches, to...
The Atlantic interviews Yang Jisheng, author of Tombstone, the award winning (and mainland banned)...
A Chinese professor was recently attacked by netizens on Sina Weibo for underestimating the death...
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...
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...
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...
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