Liberal Beijing-based Institute Announces Closure
This week, the Beijing-based Unirule Institute of Economics announced that it would close after...
Aug 28, 2019
This week, the Beijing-based Unirule Institute of Economics announced that it would close after...
Jul 12, 2018
On Tuesday, one of China’s last remaining liberal think-tanks, Unirule, was evicted from its...
May 26, 2017
Peking University law professor He Weifang has long been prominent as a liberal voice in China,...
May 19, 2017
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short...
Jul 22, 2016
Last week, senior staff at the reformist journal Yanhuang Chunqiu were replaced by its supervising...
Jan 6, 2015
After being detained on suspicion of “picking quarrels” in October, scholar Guo...
Nov 4, 2013
Will the upcoming third plenum of the CCP’s 18th Central Committee yield any significant...
Nov 4, 2013
China Real Time’s Yiyi Lu describes a recent survey which found heavy liberal leanings among...
Jul 8, 2013
Liberal Peking University economics professor Xia Yeliang, a vocal supporter of free speech and a friend of the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, told the South China Morning Post on Monday that his peers will vote...
May 20, 2013
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...
May 6, 2013
Patrick Boehler of the South China Morning Post reports that new research by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences showed that conservatives outnumber liberals in Chinese cities: Some 38.1 per cent of those surveyed held more...
Aug 21, 2012
With Gu Kailai’s murder trial and conviction yesterday, leftist allies of disgraced former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai remain adamant that he and his wife are victims of a conspiracy to curb his political rise and have...