Liberal Beijing-based Institute Announces Closure
This week, the Beijing-based Unirule Institute of Economics announced that it would close after...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 28, 2019
This week, the Beijing-based Unirule Institute of Economics announced that it would close after...
by zctph48 | Jul 12, 2018
On Tuesday, one of China’s last remaining liberal think-tanks, Unirule, was evicted from its...
by Samuel Wade | May 26, 2017
Peking University law professor He Weifang has long been prominent as a liberal voice in China,...
by Josh Rudolph | May 19, 2017
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 22, 2016
Last week, senior staff at the reformist journal Yanhuang Chunqiu were replaced by its supervising...
by Josh Rudolph | Jan 6, 2015
After being detained on suspicion of “picking quarrels” in October, scholar Guo...
by Scott Greene | Nov 4, 2013
Will the upcoming third plenum of the CCP’s 18th Central Committee yield any significant...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 4, 2013
China Real Time’s Yiyi Lu describes a recent survey which found heavy liberal leanings among...
by Scott Greene | 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...
by Samuel Wade | 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...
by Scott Greene | 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...
by Scott Greene | 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...