Jeffrey Wasserstrom, who in February warned that Xi Jinping should not seen in binary, reformist-versus-conservative terms, argues at TIME World that other Chinese leaders have also disappointed those hoping for political...
The question of whether Xi Jinping will bring about substantive political reform in China has preoccupied China watchers since the new president assumed power in March. At South China Morning Post, Choi Chi-yuk looks at the...
As China’s leadership transition approaches, the public battle of political ideals is becoming more acute. Despite their sharply divided positions, those on the left and the right share one thing: most of the vocal theorists...
The Sydney Morning Herald’s John Garnaut interviews liberal economist Mao Yushi, who has been the target of a vicious hate campaign for his public criticism of Mao Zedong. Despite this, he is still optimistic about...
Mark Mackinnon of The Globe and Mail ponders the political differences of two provincial Communist Party chiefs, Chongqing’s Bo Xilai and Guangdong’s Wang Yang, and the implications of their growing competition to...
The Sydney Morning Herald’s John Garnaut reports on the recent hacking of nationalist Chinese website Utopia: The flagship website of China’s resurgent New Left movement was brought down by hackers yesterday,...
An ideological battle between left and right has been in the spotlight lately, especially with the “red culture” campaign by Bo Xilai in Chongqing. The Economist reports on a group of leftists who are campaigning for...
The Sydney Morning Herald’s John Garnaut reports that many of the “princeling” sons of China’s party elders are unhappy with the direction China is going and are trying to gain power and influence to push...
China Media Project takes a close look at the ideological battle currently playing out between left and right in China: The “deep reds,” with their wistful talk of the glories of Mao Zedong, the “Four Basic Principles” and...
China Media Project has posted partial translations of two essays from an exchange between Wang Wen of the Global Times’ Chinese edition and the poet Ye Fu. Wang explains “the doubts and spontaneous disappointment I...
China Media Project has been tracking recent debates in the Chinese media and blogosphere over political reform (see here, here, and here), and now translates a position from the left, an editorial from Guangming Daily: First of...
Ever since the Internet was popularized in the late 1990s, Chinese BBS sites and blogosphere have been politically quite polarized, divided into “left” and “right” camps. But these concepts are very...
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