Surveillance in Chinese cities is ubiquitous, with highly visible security cameras trained on most every intersection, public space, and building, but over the past decade, it has been seeping into the countryside as well. In an...
The following censorship instructions have been distributed online. In order to create a festive and harmonious atmosphere for online discourse during Spring Festival, the Central Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has...
A short viral video of a purportedly mentally-ill mother of eight kept chained in an outdoor shed has provoked outrage among Chinese citizens, prompted a criminal investigation, and brought renewed attention to the issues of...
Li Tiantian, the pregnant Hunan elementary school teacher forcibly committed to a psychiatric ward after voicing support for a fired Shanghai professor, has been released from the hospital—and chosen self-exile. In December...
The following essay was written by Huang Deng, an educated 46-year-old woman who married into a poor rural family. A PhD and currently the Deputy Director of Finance and Media at Guangdong University of Finance, Huang is also...
Bloomberg’s Sharon Chen and Dandan Li provide an overview of recent changes to China’s hukou residency permit system, which for decades has tightly controlled citizens’ rights to settle and receive public...
China’s State Council has unveiled a series of proposals aiming to protect the estimated 61...
The State Council has released new guidelines directing local governments to allow migrants from...
The deaths—by suicide, violent attack, or apparent accident—of children in rural areas have...
At Bloomberg News, Dexter Roberts reports on the poor conditions and low quality of education at...
At the Telegraph, Robert Foyle Hunwick reports that a village in Sichuan Province has unanimously...
At The Wall Street Journal, historian Maura Cunningham describes the vulnerability of...
A roundup of online political cartoons from the past week. Click any image to launch the slideshow...
Celia Hatton reports for the BBC on children born outside China’s “one-child”...
The Wall Street Journal’s Andrew Browne examines the situation of China’s...
William Wan at The Washington Post tells the story of China’s “left-behind...
China Dialogue has republished a Caixin editorial from June outlining the benefits...
Liz Carter at Tea Leaf Nation gives a summary of recent debates among weibo users over the safety and education of China’s 60 million “left-behind” children: As reports of sexual assault and even murder of...
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