Badiucao (巴丢草): Blood Flows in Wukan
At Reuters, Venus Wu and James Pomfret report that riot police in Wukan, Guangdong fired rubber...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 13, 2016
At Reuters, Venus Wu and James Pomfret report that riot police in Wukan, Guangdong fired rubber...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 10, 2015
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Anne Henochowicz | Apr 9, 2015
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
by Josh Rudolph | Apr 7, 2015
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Josh Rudolph | Feb 13, 2015
At the New York Times, Edward Wong reports that 27 people who were related to or supported a now...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 5, 2014
On December 4, China’s first official Constitution Day, six former police officers from...
by Meredith Godwin | Nov 17, 2014
Dan Washburn worked as a sports writer and columnist at a small newspaper in Georgia prior to his...
by Natalie Ornell | Jun 8, 2014
The BBC reports that an investigation in China has found that “more than 1,000 officials in...
by Josh Rudolph | Jan 14, 2014
A report from the South China Morning Post looks at central government efforts to alleviate rural...
by 不忘初心 | Dec 26, 2012
In the wake of several recent corruption and sex scandals, a new round of the anti-corruption game has been launched. From Andrew Jacobs at The New York Times: “The anticorruption storm has begun,” People’s Daily, the party...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 3, 2012
China saw 41 self-immolation protests against forced evictions between 2009 and 2011. One might expect that death would at least be the end of the problem; but not in Zhukou city in Henan province, where local authorities are...
by 不忘初心 | Aug 30, 2012
Wang Guoqiang, former party chief of a city in northeast China’s Liaoning province, has fled to the United States with his family members and, reportedly, with millions of dollars too. From BBC: Local officials said Mr...
by Samuel Wade | May 14, 2012
While Chen Guangcheng remains under guard in Beijing’s Chaoyang Hospital, awaiting permission to travel with his family to the United States, a broad range of reprisals have been visited upon his family and supporters...
by Paulina Hartono | Jul 15, 2010
Southern Metropolis Daily’s “key phrase” of the day is “fighting to become a peasant,” or 争当农民. According to news reports, the term originated when government workers of Yiwu city in Zhejiang...
by Paulina Hartono | Feb 25, 2009
A luxurious 14-day trip to Africa and the Middle East by Guangdong local officials financed by public funds has been met with intense scrutiny after a netizen posted a indicting 17-minute video of the trip’s exploits...
by Paulina Hartono | Feb 13, 2009
Roland Soong of ESWN translates a piece from China National Radio on the discovery of rigged answers to a Jiangsu public opinion poll. Villagers complained that questions regarding annual incomes, social security, and overall...
by Paulina Hartono | Feb 6, 2009
Audra Ang of the Associated Press reports on the detention of citizens protesting against local corruption. Police in China’s capital took away at least eight people trying to air grievances in front a government building...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 10, 2009
Officials in Guangzhou have been investigated and/or jailed for gambling away over $3 million in public funds. From BBC: Chinese media reports said more than 50 officials had been investigated and six had been jailed or...