This week, the Beijing-based Unirule Institute of Economics announced that it would close after years of official pressure including the deletion of social media accounts and an eviction last summer during which the doors of its offices were welded shut, temporarily trapping staff inside. The...
On Tuesday, one of China’s last remaining liberal think-tanks, Unirule, was evicted from its...
Peking University law professor He Weifang has long been prominent as a liberal voice in China,...
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Last week, senior staff at the reformist journal Yanhuang Chunqiu were replaced by its supervising...
After being detained on suspicion of “picking quarrels” in October, scholar Guo...
Will the upcoming third plenum of the CCP’s 18th Central Committee yield any significant...
China Real Time’s Yiyi Lu describes a recent survey which found heavy liberal leanings among...
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...
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...
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...
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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