Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) is a monumental figure in modern Chinese history. The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate died in custody in a Shenyang hospital in 2017 while being treated for liver cancer. A prolific writer, Liu first rose...
Xinhua reports that Xi’an has “basically” achieved “social clearance,” the end of community transmission of the coronavirus. Approximately 13 million people remain in lockdown, tens of thousands are spread across hundreds of...
On July 1, weeks of secretive preparations for the Party’s centenary culminated in a massive ceremony in Tiananmen Square punctuated by a martial speech delivered by Xi Jinping. Xi warned that anyone who dare bully, oppress, or...
In an interview with The New York Times’ Ian Johnson, sociologist Andrew G. Walder,...
Writer Huang Zerong, also known by the pen name Tie Liu, has been officially charged by Chinese...
China Change has posted an adaptation of a 2011 essay by liberal scholar and Charter 08 signatory...
As China gears up for Mao Zedong’s lavish 120th birthday anniversary celebrations, Denise Ho...
Adam Century at The Atlantic looks at Chongqing’s red restaurant phenomenon in which...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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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