In July 2019, the philosopher and popular writer Byron Chen Chun went to Hong Kong to observe protests against proposed amendments to the Hong Kong extradition law which raised serious concerns that residents and even those...
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short...
Tsinghua University Professor of Sociology Sun Liping last week launched the WeChat public account...
Early on in Xi Jinping’s ongoing campaign to enforce ideological orthodoxy throughout the...
Following the recent U.S. airstrikes on Syria, Chinese state media denounced the move by President...
In April, liberal Beijing magazine Yanhuang Chunqiu’s chief editor Yang Jisheng was...
The BBC reports that 81-year-old writer Tie Liu has been detained by police, allegedly for an...
After colleagues voted to expel economics professor Xia Yeliang from his post at Peking University...
Any speculation that the Xi administration would foster an environment welcoming political...
The tightening grip of China’s new leadership was further put on display by the recent...
The South China Morning Post reports that writer and veteran journalist Chen Min (pen name Xiao Shu) was detained on Friday amid a campaign for the release of detained lawyer and fellow New Citizens’ Movement activist Xu...
At Bloomberg View, Pankaj Mishra examines China’s challenge to the advance of liberal democracy and its relationship with economic growth. “Development is the only hard truth,” Deng claimed. “If we do not develop, then we...
At The Useless Tree, Sam Crane responds to Liu Junning’s exploration of “The Ancient Roots of Chinese Liberalism” in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal: I am sure that serious students of Chinese philosophy...
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...
For Asia Times, Feng Chongyi, associate professor in China studies at the University of Technology, Sydney and adjunct professor of history, Nankai University, Tianjin, has a lengthy analysis of Charter 08 and its meaning for...
Robert Kagan, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, writes in The New Republic about a changing world in which Russia and China are proving that autocratic rule is a viable model for economic...
Translated by Michael Huang, from China Elections and Governance: China is currently experiencing a period of rapid social transformation. On the one hand, its social economy has scored tremendous achievements; on the other,...
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