Revisiting China Under Mao
In an interview with The New York Times’ Ian Johnson, sociologist Andrew G. Walder,...
by Cindy | Jul 24, 2015
In an interview with The New York Times’ Ian Johnson, sociologist Andrew G. Walder,...
by Cindy | Oct 23, 2014
Writer Huang Zerong, also known by the pen name Tie Liu, has been officially charged by Chinese...
by Samuel Wade | May 12, 2014
China Change has posted an adaptation of a 2011 essay by liberal scholar and Charter 08 signatory...
by Natalie Ornell | Dec 20, 2013
As China gears up for Mao Zedong’s lavish 120th birthday anniversary celebrations, Denise Ho...
by Cindy | Nov 5, 2013
Adam Century at The Atlantic looks at Chongqing’s red restaurant phenomenon in which...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 29, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 1, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 1, 2012
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,...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 11, 2012
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...
by Scott Greene | Mar 14, 2012
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...