Liberal Beijing-based Institute Announces Closure
This week, the Beijing-based Unirule Institute of Economics announced that it would close after...
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Liberal Think-tank Unirule Evicted From Beijing Offices
On Tuesday, one of China’s last remaining liberal think-tanks, Unirule, was evicted from its...
Law Scholar He Weifang Quits Social Media
Peking University law professor He Weifang has long been prominent as a liberal voice in China,...
Person of the Week: Qiao Mu
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short...
Court Rejects Lawsuit From Besieged Liberal Journal
Last week, senior staff at the reformist journal Yanhuang Chunqiu were replaced by its supervising...
Scholar Who Helped Chen Guangcheng Escape Arrested
After being detained on suspicion of “picking quarrels” in October, scholar Guo...
All Eyes On Xi As Third Plenum Nears
Will the upcoming third plenum of the CCP’s 18th Central Committee yield any significant...
The Extreme Tilt of Chinese Internet Politics
China Real Time’s Yiyi Lu describes a recent survey which found heavy liberal leanings among...
Liberal Peking University Professor Faces Expulsion
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...
Why China’s Riches Won’t Bring It Freedom
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...
In New Research, A More Cynical Urban China
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...
Bo Supporters Drawing Battle Lines Within the CCP
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...
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