Xi’s Second Term: Name in Charter, No Heir in Sight
Wednesday marked the beginning of Xi Jinping’s second term as China’s top leader, and...
Mao Zedong Thought
“Xi Jinping Thought” May Be Added to Party Charter
Xi Jinping has now been in charge of the Party and state for five years. While Xi’s presumed...
A White House With Chinese Characteristics?
During President Donald Trump’s first weeks in office, seasoned China-watching academics...
River Crabbed: Skirting “Truth From Facts”
When something disappears from the Internet in China, netizens joke that it has been...
This Week on CDT, October 17, 2014
As the protest movement in Hong Kong grinds on, police this week dismantled bamboo barricades and...
Xi Jinping: Dynastic Heir vs. Man of the People
After secretly visiting China to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1989 June 4th crackdown last...
274 Quotes From Xi Jinping
The Chinese government has released a book featuring quotations from President Xi Jinping in a...
Yu Hua: China’s “Absurd” History of Class Struggle
At The New York Times, writer Yu Hua describes how Chinese people today avoid the language of...
On Mao’s Birthday, Ambivalence Abounds
December 26th marked the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth, and celebratory...
Red Rhetoric Heats Up as Mao Turns 120
With the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth close on the horizon, the Irish Times...
Gilded Mao Statue Marks Birthday Bash
Chris Buckley reports for The New York Times that “the Communist revolutionary who...
Word of the Week: Hair Removal
Editor’s Note: The CDT Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon is a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens...
Don’t Write Off Mao Just Yet
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...
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,...
As CPC Approaches, Is Mao’s Influence at Risk?
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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