At South China Morning Post last week, Mandy Zuo reported on employment targets announced at the Two Sessions legislative and advisory meetings, which concluded on Tuesday in Beijing: The Chinese government wants the economy to...
The specter of arrest has made Halloween extra spooky this year. In Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Wuhan, Halloween revelry has been marred by strict police curfews, the detention of costume-clad partygoers, and bans on organized...
A photograph of a delivery driver forced to kneel before a neighborhood security guard in Hangzhou has inspired widespread calls for better labor protections for China’s working class. The viral image of the kneeling driver...
Hangzhou’s Center for the Practice of Whole-Process People’s Democracy has become the butt of online jokes about China’s lack of democracy. Whole-process people’s democracy is Party-speak for the deliberative elements of China’s...
After being postponed for a year due to the 2022 COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown in nearby Shanghai, the 19th Asian Games are finally taking place in China’s eastern seaboard city of Hangzhou. For the Chinese government, the...
Word(s) of the Week: “It is a bit ridiculous, but you must obey.” (是有点搞笑，但是你要服从, Shì yǒudiǎn gǎoxiào, dànshì nǐ yào fúcóng.) A policeman admitting that a traffic restriction “is a bit ridiculous, but you must obey”...
“Voices of Protest” is a special edition of CDT’s monthly “Voices of…” video series. This 15-minute video is a compilation of video footage, images, and audio from the large, spontaneous public protests that broke out in a...
An investigation into Hangzhou’s Party chief by the CCP’s powerful internal anti-corruption watchdog may be tied to Alibaba’s ongoing political woes. Over the weekend, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
In the lead-up to the G20 summit in Hangzhou, held in the city September 4-5, security was tight...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The final countdown to the 2016 G20 summit has begun after months of painstaking preparation by...
The leaders of the world’s twenty major economies will gather in Hangzhou this weekend for the...
Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang Province, has undergone a major facelift in the past year...
Top political leaders from around the world will gather in Hangzhou, Zhejiang at the start of next...
Hangzhou is already deep into preparations for the G20 Summit in September, the first to be hosted...
A Shenzhen-based webmaster who had published online articles critical of Alibaba says he was...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
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