Today’s quote of the day derives from netizen backlash to the Communist Youth League’s (CYL) recent video broadside against “lying down”—referring to the much-discussed phenomenon of people slacking off, quietly giving up, or...
A post about a Guangzhou public opinion poll showing the largest drop in public satisfaction in 30 years has been deleted after being published by the WeChat account of He Wenwei, a Guangzhou-based business consultant who blogs...
A series of recent surveys shows how Chinese diplomacy in the era of Xi Jinping has soured attitudes toward China in many developed countries. At the same time, Chinese officials are doubling down on their foreign policy...
Sunday’s election for Hong Kong’s legislative council yielded the lowest turnout in the history of the city’s legislative elections under both Chinese and British rule. In this “patriots only” election—featuring only candidates...
The Pew Research Center has released new survey results showing that Americans’ perception...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
A recent Gallup poll on global religious trends shows unusually high level of atheism in China,...
People’s Tribune, a magazine published by the official People’s Daily, released a survey on social...
According to a poll on the top 10 national concerns in China taken by the People’s Tribune...
As the Party’s Third Plenum approaches, the Pew Research Center’s Jacob Poushter looks...
At The Washington Post last week, Simon Denyer reported on the expansion of Beijing’s efforts to gather data on public opinion, both online and through surveys: [… T]he government is trying to understand public opinion on...
When China placed 80th out of 176 countries in Transparency International’s 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index, some netizens suggested that the organization must have been bribed to give it such a high ranking. But when TI...
Committee of 100 (百人会), a non-partisan, non-profit organization striving to bring “a Chinese-American perspective to issues concerning Asian Americans and U.S.-China relations” recently released the results of their...
John Pomfret writes on his blog about a recently released poll indicating that 92 percent of Chinese believe their country has a mostly positive influence on the world. From Pomfret’s China: To me this poll illustrates one...
Roland Soong of ESWN translates a piece from China National Radio on the discovery of rigged answers to a Jiangsu public opinion poll. Villagers complained that questions regarding annual incomes, social security, and overall...
Translated by CDT from People Online via sina.com: With skyrocketing housing and pork prices, inflation, not surprisingly, has topped the list of concerns in a recent survey of officials who are in Beijing attending a Party School study session. The survey, started in 1998, sent out 170 questionnaires and received 154 effective returns, covering a […]
From The Globe and Mail: For the big-city mayors, it should have been disastrous news. A poll had found their approval ratings below 35 per cent. Their honesty had been ranked even lower, with less than 16 per cent seeing them as incorruptible. In the West, these kinds of poll numbers would spell political death. […]
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