Credible Voices on Social Credit in China
Last week, city authorities in Beijing released a “Municipal Action Plan for Further...
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Social Credit: Orwellian Nightmare, or “Crude Tool”?
China’s emerging social credit system has attracted an exceptional level of attention and...
Pre-Congress Pressure Mounts on Tech Firms, Users
At this year’s Two Sessions legislative and political advisory meetings in Beijing in...
Badiucao: Selective Blindness
CDT cartoonist Badiucao comments on a recent viral video in which a woman was hit by a vehicle...
Translation: Game Developers Lament Censors’ Demands
Like other media, video games in China are subject to a wide range of political and moral content...
Media to Push Socialist Values Over Western Lifestyles
China this week rolled out new rules on entertainment news as top lawmakers reviewed a draft of...
Pope Seeks Improved China Relations Amid Crackdown
Talks are underway between the Vatican and Beijing to secure an agreement involving the selection...
After Autoshow Model Ban, a Funeral Stripper Crackdown
At China Real Time, Te-Ping Chen and Josh Chin report a new crackdown on hiring strippers to...
Privatized Housing and Political Legitimacy in China
At The New York Times, Ian Johnson talks to Luigi Tomba of the Australian National University...
What Pew Got Wrong About Chinese Atheism
Pew Research’s Global Attitudes Project recently conducted a global survey asking...
Man Commits Suicide Over Hit-and-Run Accusations
Wu Weiqing committed suicide after being falsely accused of knocking down a senior citizen whom he...
Shenzhen ‘Good Samaritan’ Law Comes Into Effect
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...
Trust Among Chinese Drops to Record Low
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...
One-Child Policy Accused of Breeding Mistrust
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...
Driver Jailed for Death of Foshan Toddler
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...
Ancient Morality Text Updated for Young
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...
One Author’s Plea for a Gentler China
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...
‘Good Samaritan’ Case Gets New Ending
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...
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