Minitrue: Li Chengpeng, Murong Xuecun Essays
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Li Chengpeng
Netizen Voices: Li Chengpeng Ousted From Sina
China’s influential “Big V” microbloggers have been primary targets in the...
Liberal Commentator Li Chengpeng Wiped Offline
As of March this year, social and political commentator Li Chengpeng’s Sina blog had received more...
Soccer Commentator to Voice of the People: Li Chengpeng
The Telegraph’s Tom Phillips profiles soccer- turned social commentator Li Chengpeng: On...
Li Chengpeng: The Taiwan You Can See
China and Taiwan will hold official talks in Nanjing tomorrow, the first since 1949. While the...
Watermelon Vendor’s Death Sparks Fury at Chengguan
On Tuesday, China Daily published a partial translation of an article from People’s Daily expressing bewilderment at the unpopularity of chengguan urban management officials. “Perhaps,” it suggested,...
“Grandma’s Legs”: An Ode to Taxes
Gravel-voiced and irreverent, Zuoxiao Zuzhuo has been called “China’s Leonard Cohen.” Singing about forced demolitions and food safety scandals, he has collaborated with the Cowboy Junkies and his good friend Ai Weiwei (whose...
Sensitive Words: Hu Yaobang Remembered and More
As of April 16, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). 24th Anniversary of Hu Yaobang’s Death: Former Chinese Communist Party chief died suddenly on April 15,...
Li Chengpeng on the Parallels of Football and Politics
On his South China Morning Post blog, Patrick Boehler profiles blogger Li Chengpeng, who has become a popular and outspoken commentator on politics after leaving his job as football (soccer) reporter: Li has become a hero for...
Li Chengpeng on the Murder of Baby Haobo
On her A Big Enough Forest blog, Liz Carter has translated an essay by social critic Li Chengpeng on the recent kidnapping-turned-murder of baby Xu Haobo. In the essay, Li also refers to the toddler who suffered multiple...
Forced Silence Amplifies Li Chengpeng’s Voice
At The Economist’s Analects blog, Sascha Matuszak profiles liberal writer and microblogger Li Chengpeng, from his exposure of corruption in Chinese soccer to his recent book tour dogged by enforced silence and political...
Li Chengpeng’s Silent Book Signing
On January 11, popular writer and critic Li Chengpeng reported on Weibo that he had received...
Controversy Pursues Li Chengpeng Book Tour
A series of book signings by writer and 6.5 million-follower weibo celebrity Li Chengpeng has become a lightning rod for tensions between leftists and liberals. In an incident at a signing in Beijing on Sunday, two men threw a...
Southern Weekly Conflict Resolved; Concerns Linger
After a weeklong stand-off with local propaganda officials, which included street protests, a staff strike, and weibo battles, Southern Weekly published its weekly edition Thursday as scheduled. But the publication did not come...
Southern Weekly Censorship Faceoff Continues (Updated)
The heavy-handed rewriting of the Southern Weekly newspaper’s traditional New Year greeting has triggered a staff strike, a barrage of letters and petitions, and an upwelling of popular support both on- and offline. In the...
Li Chengpeng: Speak
Author and blogger Li Chengpeng, who has 6.4 million followers on Sina Weibo, delivered a powerful speech to students at Beijing University on freedom of speech. Translated by Liz Carter at A Big Enough Forest: Having lost the...
To Know What’s Wrong With China, Look At Construction
Popular blogger Li Chengpeng wrote recently about the recent collapse of a bridge in Harbin, after which officials claimed that they were unable to find the construction company responsible. He uses that example, among many...
One Author’s Plea for a Gentler China
Tea Leaf Nation translates a bleak essay on the state of Chinese society by Murong Xuecun, which was reposted on Sina Weibo over 36,000 times last week before being deleted. We live in an age when dust blocks the sky. Politics...
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