A student at Beijing Foreign Studies University who was involved with the campaigns of two candidates for local office gives his first-hand perspective on the independent candidate movement in China. Vincent Fang was a student...
The New York Times’ Sharon LaFraniere reports on Qiao Mu, a professor at the Beijing Foreign Studies University whose failed candidacy in a neighborhood People’s Congress election highlights the government’s...
The Los Angeles Times looks at the challenges facing Chinese citizens who are waging independent campaigns, largely through social media, to get elected to local people’s congress positions: The positions of people’s...
The Globe and Mail reports on the fate of several individuals who ran independent campaigns for local people’s congress positions. Beijing journalist Xu Chunliu, for example, was disqualified from running in his...
In The New York Times, Sharon Lafraniere writes about microblogs as an outlet for China’s independent local election candidates as their campaigns battle a stacked deck of government obstruction: The ability of candidates...
China’s first celebrity independent candidate, Cheng Yuting, was not able to meet the nominator requirements for candidates and thus is ineligible for the local people’s congress election. Independent candidates are often called...
China’s group of self-declared independent candidates, who have waged campaigns for local election over social media, have received a boost after two won their elections in Foshan. The Telegraph reports: In the south, Guo...
The wave of independent candidates has suffered various setbacks in their campaign to win local political office. But the movement has just gotten some new blood in Beijing–a celebrity. Cheng Yuting, born in 1988, is a...
Tania Branigan of the Guardian reports on the group of citizens using social media to launch independent candidacies for local office, and the government’s response: Li Fan, of the private thinktank the World and China...
Earlier this week we posted the translated microblog posts of independent candidate Yu Nan, who had made it to the preliminary round of the election and become an official candidate. [Read more about the group of citizens using...
In recent months, citizens have taken to social media to declare their independent candidacies for local election. As a result of the recent government clampdown on these candidates, none were elected as a district level...
The Washington Post reports on the group of people who are using social media to launch independent campaigns for local office: The local congresses — the lowest rung in China’s government structure, equivalent to neighborhood...
In the past two months, over 100 independent candidates announced their candidacy for seats at the local-level People’s Congress and have used micro-blogging and social media sites to gain support. Li Chengpeng, for instance,...
Global Voices looks at how the self-declared independent candidates for local elections in China are using social media to gain supporters: The candidacy wave remains small, but is still a top discussion topic online. More...
The following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by various central (and sometimes local) government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and...
Caixin Online reports on the hardships one local woman faced while trying to run as an independent candidate in a Jiangxi election. Liu Ping wanted to be an everyman’s candidate in a race for a local delegate to the...
The Wall Street Journal comments on the movement of self-declared independent candidates who are running for local elections in China and using social media to get their message out, on the eve of the CCP’s 90th birthday...
Since April 2011, the “independent candidates” movement has been gathering steam in Chinese cyberspace and in real society. Over 100 people have announced they will run for local elections this year. Among them, Cao...
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