Guo Wengui “Lets The Bullets Fly For A While”
In mid-April, Guo Wengui, a property tycoon currently living in New York who has suspected ties to...
by Samuel Wade | May 12, 2017
In mid-April, Guo Wengui, a property tycoon currently living in New York who has suspected ties to...
by Josh Rudolph | Mar 4, 2015
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 15, 2014
Amid the Xi administration’s ongoing crackdown on Party corruption, anti-graft authorities...
by Anne Henochowicz | Aug 7, 2014
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Natalie Ornell | Jun 8, 2014
The BBC reports that an investigation in China has found that “more than 1,000 officials in...
by Anne Henochowicz | May 8, 2014
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 12, 2014
The head of China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Wang Qishan has announced...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 24, 2014
On Monday, Xinhua announced the formal removal from office of Li Dongsheng, the former vice...
by Anne Henochowicz | Feb 4, 2014
Following the initiation of a pilot program for cadres to disclose their assets last December, new...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 2, 2013
A new pilot program promises to gradually impose new asset disclosure requirements on most Chinese...
by Sophie Beach | Aug 21, 2013
For his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab responds to the...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 22, 2013
While Xi Jinping’s increasingly strong anti-corruption rhetoric has met with some skepticism, it seems that some of its targets are taking it seriously. The Telegraph’s Malcolm Moore describes a Central Commission...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 2, 2013
After the new Party leadership was sworn in during the 18th Party Congress, the Chinese government has been actively cultivating an image that is warmer and friendlier than generations past, including distributing images of...
by Sophie Beach | Dec 31, 2012
The year 2012 was like no other for China watchers: breaking stories full of political intrigue, sex scandals, natural disasters, murder, and a transition to a new generation of leaders. Which stories were most popular on CDT?...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 29, 2012
For his latest installment of the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab illustrates an imagined nightmare of outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao. At the upcoming 18th Party Congress, during which Wen is expected to cede his...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 21, 2012
For his latest installment of the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab plays on the term “China Model,” which refers to China’s unique political and economic system of authoritarian capitalism, by...
by Sophie Beach | Aug 28, 2012
For the latest instalment in his CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab of Hexie Farm depicts a naked king performing the “Song of Harmony,” yet at end of the big note is the scythe of the grim reaper. The image of the...
by Wendy Qian | Jul 15, 2012
Melinda Liu of the Daily Beast reports on China’s crackdown on “naked officials” leaking embezzled funds overseas. At least $50 billion is thought to have left the country this way between 1978 and 2003,...