Several of China’s major social media companies have launched a campaign to clean up “historical nihilism” on their platforms. The push comes on the heels of an April 20 essay published in Study Times by the head of the...
Since his ascension to the top of the Party in 2012, Xi Jinping has shown little tolerance for “historical nihilism,” a catch-all term for critical appraisals of the Party’s rise and rule. The Party made a concerted push to...
Wednesday marked the beginning of Xi Jinping’s second term as China’s top leader, and...
Xi Jinping has now been in charge of the Party and state for five years. While Xi’s presumed...
During President Donald Trump’s first weeks in office, seasoned China-watching academics...
When something disappears from the Internet in China, netizens joke that it has been...
As the protest movement in Hong Kong grinds on, police this week dismantled bamboo barricades and...
After secretly visiting China to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1989 June 4th crackdown last...
The Chinese government has released a book featuring quotations from President Xi Jinping in a...
At The New York Times, writer Yu Hua describes how Chinese people today avoid the language of...
December 26th marked the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth, and celebratory...
With the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth close on the horizon, the Irish Times...
Chris Buckley reports for The New York Times that “the Communist revolutionary who...
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While the foreign media has reported that the Chinese Communist Party may downplay Mao Zedong Thought at its upcoming 18th Party Congress, The Diplomat’s Mu Chunshan warns against reading too far into such speculation: To...
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,...
Reuters reports that the legacy of Mao Zedong, long thought untouchable among the pillars of Communist Party orthodoxy, may wane as the next generation of Chinese leaders looks towards reform: Which is why the dropping of the...
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