30 Years Ago: Beijing Rejects Deadline for Talks
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China,...
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LatestCCP Aggressively Guards Claim to May 4th Legacy
Saturday is the 100th anniversary of the 1919 May 4th Movement, sparked by China’s...
30 Years Ago: Students Network Nationally
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China,...
Minitrue: Do Not Report on PKU Open Letter
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
May 4th, Tiananmen, Wukan, and HK’s Umbrella Protests
With the 25th anniversary of the 1989 June 4th crackdown still fresh in memory (at least outside...
Sensitive Words: May Thirty-fifth and More
As of May 27, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user”...
Xi Jinping’s Odd Packaging of the May 4th Spirit
At the Los Angeles Review of Books blog, Rebecka Eriksson discusses Xi Jinping’s...
CDT Bookshelf: “A Wen Yiduo Poem Is Like a Jewel”
Wen Yiduo, poet, professor, and staunch critic of the Kuomintang (KMT), was unafraid to speak his...
The Post 80s Generation—Are the Kids All Right?
At ChinaFile, Sun Yunfan, Orville Schell and Damien Ma discuss the gap between members of China’s post-80s generation and their parents, based on a recent article by James Palmer that was featured on CDT last week. Sun...
Observations of a Protest
The following dispatch was sent to CDT by an American who was visiting Shanghai during the recent anti-Japan protests: Shanghai, September 18, 2012 – by Jane Wang On 9-18 （九一八), the anniversary of the Mukden Incident, I...
Hong Zhenkuai: Patriotism Doesn’t Mean Love of Government
China Elections and Governance has translated an op-ed first published in the Southern Metropolis Weekly. THe editr in charge of publishing it was later removed from his post. The piece, by historian and newspaper columnist Hong...
China Marks 90th Anniversary of ‘May Fourth Movement’
Danwei looks at domestic magazine coverage of the 90th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement: “Youth” is the day’s keyword. May 4 was designated National Youth Day in 1949 to commemorate the students in the...
Jeffrey N Wasserstrom: China’s Anniversary Tempest
On openDemocracy, Jeffrey N Wasserstrom writes about boycotts in Chinese history and more recently: In the perspective both of China’s 20th-century history and its last year, the spreading language of boycott offers two...
Cai Yuanpei and Charter 08
Jottings from a Granite Studio discusses the importance of Charter 08 in a historical context, in honor of Cai Yuanpei’s birthday: …To dismiss the importance of Charter 08 because it is the product of a single class...
Geremie R. Barmé: Mirrors of History
In Japan Focus, Geremie Barme writes about the historical antecedents to the recent anti-Japan protests:
One could say there is a certain pattern of the past discernable in the way
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: Why China Was So Worried About Those Student Protests
On History News Network, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom writes:
Western reports on the recent anti-Japanese protests by Chinese students have often stressed the need to pay attention to
Jim Yardley: Chinese Police Head Off Anti-Japan Protests
From The New York Times:
Thousands of police officers in Beijing and Shanghai stood guard on Wednesday in a show of force to ensure that one of China’s most sensitive political
Kristie LuStout: Young, angry … and wired
From CNN.com: On May 4 in 1919, students in Beijing launched a nationwide movement against imperialism and a government that had failed to stand up to the West and Japan. More than 80 years later, a new generation in China is...
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