“I don’t raise pigs” (我不养猪 wǒ bù yǎng zhū), a Hunan police station’s nonsensical comment on the death of a woman in their custody, is the latest incidence of “gobsmacking rhetoric” (léi yǔ 雷语) to go viral. “Gobsmacking rhetoric”...
After news came last weekend of a proposed constitutional amendment that could allow Xi Jinping to...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The BBC’s John Sudworth reports that his team was attacked and forced to sign a confession...
A “Christian theme park” in Hunan, the home province of Mao Zedong, is drawing intense...
In the latest edition of the Hoover Institution’s China Leadership Monitor, Alice L. Miller...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Laura Zhou at South China Morning Post reports that authorities in Hunan have summoned riot police...
Ou Shaokun, a Guangzhou-based anti-corruption activist known for his work campaigning against...
At the New York Times, Edward Wong reports that 27 people who were related to or supported a now...
At Marketplace, Rob Schmitz reports police obstruction and intimidation in Chengdu, where he was...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Former president Hu Jintao’s public visit to Hunan earlier this week may have been intended...
Writer Sheng Keyi reflects on her return trips home to the once “sweet and sparkling”...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Following last November’s adjustment to China’s one-child policy, Sutirtho Patranobis...
A Hunan city government’s use of the world’s most common password allowed public...
While she writes in an autobiographical essay that she was born in 1972 in Hunan as a...
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