Person of the Week: Sun Liping
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Person of the Week: Cui Weiping
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Person of the Week: Yu Jianrong
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Ai Xiaoming on Idealism and Totalitarianism
As part of “Talking About China,” his series of interviews with artists, activists,...
Minitrue: Li Chengpeng, Murong Xuecun Essays
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Woeser: The Voice of Tibet for China and the World
Today’s episode of PRI’s The World profiles the frequently house-arrested Tibetan...
Shi Shusi: The State of Weibo
On December 5, prominent micro-blogger and Worker’s Daily magazine’s editorial...
Mao Yushi and Critics Put Ideological Gulf on Display
Mao Yushi, the 84-year-old economist who last year won the Cato Institute’s Milton Freedom Prize for Advancing Liberty, is a prominent voice on one side of China’s ideological gulf — his free-market advocacy...
Eric X. Li: “Democracy is Not the Answer”
With his frequent opinion pieces and public lectures, venture capitalist Eric X. Li has established himself a rising Chinese public intellectual for the English-speaking world. Since 2011, a number of his writings have appeared...
Signs of a New Tiananmen in China
For the Diplomat, Minxin Pei argues that the CCP Standing Committee should be very concerned about an “intellectual reawakening” which is increasingly resonating with the Chinese public and may be creating the...
Eric X. Li on China’s Ideological Rift
Venture capitalist, frequent English language op-ed writer and rising public intellectual Eric X. Li warns us that a constant focus on the sacking of Bo Xilai is distracting from a much more menacing problem –...
What It Means to Be a Rising Public Intellectual in China
Last week in the New York Times, venture capitalist Eric X. Li wrote an op-ed arguing that China’s model of governance was superior to the United States’. Li has written equally provocative essays, including one,...
Uighur Intellectual Who Won’t Back Down in China
The New York Times profiles Uighur professor Ilham Tohti: These are precarious times for Mr. Tohti, a brazenly outspoken spark plug of a man whose advocacy for China’s Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs has landed him on the...
A Chinese Official Praises a Taboo: Democracy
The New York Times’ Saturday Profile is of scholar Yu Keping: A closer look at Mr. Yu provides a small window into the role of those few public intellectuals who have learned to navigate what would appear to be treacherous...
China Now Pressuring Tibetans Outside Politics
From the Associated Press: China’s government has grown increasingly sensitive about Tibet in the two years since rioting in the regional capital of Lhasa left 22 people dead and led to the most sustained Tibetan uprising...
Public Intellectuals in China
From ChinaGeeks: Every year, the Southern People Weekly compiles a list of top public intellectuals in China. The magazine defines public intellectual as those: 1) with academic background and professional standing; 2) with...
Wang Hui: The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity
China Beat has posted an excerpt of the English edition of prominent public intellectual Wang Hui’s book, The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity: Discussions of the state are directly related to...
Yu Jianrong (于建嵘): Maintaining a Baseline of Social Stability (Part 4 )
Dr. Yu Jianrong (于建嵘), chairman of the Social Issues Research Center of the Rural Development Institute of the China Academy of Social Sciences, delivered a speech entitled “Maintaining a Baseline of Social...
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