Badiucao (巴丢草): Blood Flows in Wukan
At Reuters, Venus Wu and James Pomfret report that riot police in Wukan, Guangdong fired rubber...
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LatestMinitrue: Delete Article on Disciplinary Official’s Death
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Word of the Week: To Be Johnned
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Minitrue: Cool Down on Uncle Ou Shaokun
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
China Sentences 27 Linked to Official Who Reported Graft
At the New York Times, Edward Wong reports that 27 people who were related to or supported a now...
Former Police Attempt Suicide by Pesticide
On December 4, China’s first official Constitution Day, six former police officers from...
CDT Bookshelf: Dan Washburn on Golf in China
Dan Washburn worked as a sports writer and columnist at a small newspaper in Georgia prior to his...
1,000 ‘Naked Officials’ Found in Guangdong’
The BBC reports that an investigation in China has found that “more than 1,000 officials in...
For Some Rural Officials, Poverty Pays
A report from the South China Morning Post looks at central government efforts to alleviate rural...
Corrupt Officials Draw Unusual Publicity
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...
Henan Officials Commit a Grave Error
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...
City Party Chief Fled with Money
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...
Chen Guangcheng’s Supporters Face Reprisals
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...
Key Phrase: Fighting to Become a Peasant
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...
Official Sacked for Overseas Trip, with Netizens’ Reactions
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...
The Rigged Jiangsu Public Opinion Poll
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...
China Police Take Away Citizens Airing Grievances
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...
China Officials ‘Lost Millions’
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...
