Credible Voices on Social Credit in China
Last week, city authorities in Beijing released a “Municipal Action Plan for Further...
Nov 29, 2018
Last week, city authorities in Beijing released a “Municipal Action Plan for Further...
May 15, 2018
China’s emerging social credit system has attracted an exceptional level of attention and...
Oct 3, 2017
At this year’s Two Sessions legislative and political advisory meetings in Beijing in...
Jun 12, 2017
CDT cartoonist Badiucao comments on a recent viral video in which a woman was hit by a vehicle...
Dec 9, 2016
Like other media, video games in China are subject to a wide range of political and moral content...
Sep 1, 2016
China this week rolled out new rules on entertainment news as top lawmakers reviewed a draft of...
Jul 15, 2016
Talks are underway between the Vatican and Beijing to secure an agreement involving the selection...
Apr 23, 2015
At China Real Time, Te-Ping Chen and Josh Chin report a new crackdown on hiring strippers to...
Jan 27, 2015
At The New York Times, Ian Johnson talks to Luigi Tomba of the Australian National University...
Mar 25, 2014
Pew Research’s Global Attitudes Project recently conducted a global survey asking...
Jan 9, 2014
Wu Weiqing committed suicide after being falsely accused of knocking down a senior citizen whom he...
Jul 26, 2013
China’s first “Good Samaritan law” (好人法), passed in February, comes into effect next month. A China Daily article from earlier this month explains the city regulation, suggesting that a similar state law could...
Feb 23, 2013
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ newly released Annual Report on Social Mentality suggests that social trust in China continues to fall. From He Dan at China Daily: The Blue Book of Social Mentality, the latest...
Jan 14, 2013
An Australian study published last week attempts to quantify the psychological effects of the “one-child policy” on those born under it, who have often been disparaged as a generation of spoiled “Little...
Sep 6, 2012
One of two drivers who fatally struck a Guangdong toddler last year has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison after a trial held in late May. From Xinhua: Hu Jun was convicted of involuntary homicide by the Nanhai...
Aug 19, 2012
China has updated the ’24 Filial Exemplars’, an ancient morality text, to promote filial piety among the new generation. From Tania Branigan at The Guardian: The original 24 Filial Exemplars date from around the 14th...
Jul 30, 2012
Tea Leaf Nation translates a bleak essay on the state of Chinese society by Murong Xuecun, which was reposted on Sina Weibo over 36,000 times last week before being deleted. We live in an age when dust blocks the sky. Politics...
Jan 18, 2012
Adam Minter describes a dramatic twist in the tale of Peng Yu, whose prosecution for aiding an elderly woman became a potent symbol of modern China’s social decay and exerted a deep chilling effect over would-be Good...