Revisiting China Under Mao
In an interview with The New York Times’ Ian Johnson, sociologist Andrew G. Walder,...
Mao era
Writer Who Published Mao Victims’ Memoirs Charged
Writer Huang Zerong, also known by the pen name Tie Liu, has been officially charged by Chinese...
Xu Youyu on Defiance in Sensitive Times
China Change has posted an adaptation of a 2011 essay by liberal scholar and Charter 08 signatory...
Mao Zedong Reinvented at Memorial Museum
As China gears up for Mao Zedong’s lavish 120th birthday anniversary celebrations, Denise Ho...
Restaurants Serve Cultural Revolution Nostalgia
Adam Century at The Atlantic looks at Chongqing’s red restaurant phenomenon in which...
Police Silence Visitors to Executed Dissident’s Grave
Monday marked the 45th anniversary of the execution of Lin Zhao, a dissident who wrote criticisms of the government in her own blood while in prison. Despite her official rehabilitation in 1981, visitors to her grave have faced...
CCTV Pre-Execution Spectacle Polarizes Viewers
Drug lord Naw Kham and three other foreigners were executed in Kunming on Friday for the 2011 killings of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River. State broadcaster CCTV aired the prisoners’ final hours, together with...
An Appreciation of Physicist Fang Lizhi
Physicist Fang Lizhi, who died in April, became most widely known for his year-long refuge in the American embassy in Beijing, beginning on June 5th, 1989. In China Quarterly and the Forum on International Physics Newsletter,...
Photos: China’s Cultural and Economic Revolutions
At The New York Times’ Lens blog, Sim Chi Yin talks to Li Zhensheng, who worked as a photojournalist in Heilongjiang during the Cultural Revolution. Li describes how, after initially being caught up in the excitement of...
Wen Pushes Reform as Transition Draws Near
Giving the final National People’s Congress (NPC) news conference of his 10-year tenure before a leadership transition which is expected to begin later this year, Premier Wen Jiabao argued that China must enact bold...
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