Liberal Beijing-based Institute Announces Closure
This week, the Beijing-based Unirule Institute of Economics announced that it would close after...
Mao Yushi
Liberal Think-tank Unirule Evicted From Beijing Offices
On Tuesday, one of China’s last remaining liberal think-tanks, Unirule, was evicted from its...
New Policy Stresses: Think Tanks Must Serve Party
In recent years, the Xi administration has repeatedly announced its intention to “strengthen the...
Ren Zhiqiang’s Gagging Hailed as Key Achievement
Almost a year ago, the weibo accounts of property tycoon Ren Zhiqiang were deleted after he...
China’s Great Famine: A Mission to Expose the Truth
At Al Jazeera, Allison Griner spoke with economist Mao Yushi about China’s Great Famine and...
Book Ban Reports Spark Indignation, Special Offers
Reuters’ Sui-Lee Wee and Megha Rajagopalan report that the State Administration for Press,...
Mao Yushi and Critics Put Ideological Gulf on Display
Mao Yushi, the 84-year-old economist who last year won the Cato Institute’s Milton Freedom Prize for Advancing Liberty, is a prominent voice on one side of China’s ideological gulf — his free-market advocacy...
People’s Daily Urges Nationalist’s Arrest
At Tea Leaf Nation, Tom Snyder covers the fallout from an incident during last month’s anti-Japanese protests: prominent nationalist Han Deqiang’s slapping of an elderly man for “disrespecting” Mao...
Netizen Voices: Abolish Labor Re-education
The mother of a rape victim in Hunan Province has been sent to a re-education through labor camp...
Mao Yushi on China’s True Danger
Mao Yushi, the prominent economist and recipient of the Cato Institute’s 2012 Milton Friedman...
Sensitive Words: The Long and Short of It
As of June 13, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
An Interview With Mao Yushi
Forbes’ Simon Montlake talks to economist Mao Yushi on the need and prospects for political reform in China: Q: Since economic reform began in 1978, the Communist Party has had a strong record of growth and poverty...
Mao Yushi Believes China Will Be Set Free
The Sydney Morning Herald’s John Garnaut interviews liberal economist Mao Yushi, who has been the target of a vicious hate campaign for his public criticism of Mao Zedong. Despite this, he is still optimistic about...
Artist Asks a Simple Question: What Do Chinese People Need?
A 20 minute documentary by Yang Weidong asks what Chinese people need, and presents 151 answers. From The Age: “I need freedom of speech,” says Mao Yushi, a public intellectual who has mentored many of China’s...
“Forces of Darkness” Bring Down Nationalist Chinese Website
The Sydney Morning Herald’s John Garnaut reports on the recent hacking of nationalist Chinese website Utopia: The flagship website of China’s resurgent New Left movement was brought down by hackers yesterday,...
Boundlessly Loyal to the Great Monster
An ideological battle between left and right has been in the spotlight lately, especially with the “red culture” campaign by Bo Xilai in Chongqing. The Economist reports on a group of leftists who are campaigning for...
Mao (Still?) Tears China Apart
The Diplomat writes about the recent essay by Mao Yushi on Mao Zedong and explores his legacy, 35 years after his death: Mao Yushi, an 82-year-old economist, penned a blog entry that was strongly critical of Mao, suggesting he...
Mao’s Legacy Still Divides China
Responding on Twitter to news of Osama bin Laden’s death, blogger Wen Yunchao wrote that “Bin Laden is dead, but Mao Zedong still lives on.” As authorities cultivate celebrations of China’s Communist...
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