Liberal Beijing-based Institute Announces Closure
This week, the Beijing-based Unirule Institute of Economics announced that it would close after...
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Scholars React to Xi Critic’s Tsinghua Suspension
On Monday, law professor Xu Zhangrun was suspended from teaching and other roles at Tsinghua...
Tsinghua University Removes Xi Critic Xu Zhangrun
At The Financial Times, Christian Shepherd reports the removal from teaching duties of Tsinghua...
Beijing to Scrap Urban-Rural Residency Distinction
Following up on the central government’s earlier promises to reform the controversial hukou...
Journal Remains Defiant in Face of Likely Closure
Two weeks ago, the government-sponsored supervising organization of the long-running liberal...
Liberal Journal Says It Will End Publication
Last week, staff at the high-profile reformist journal Yanhuang Chunqiu threatened a lawsuit after...
China Vows to Better Protect “Left-Behind” Children
China’s State Council has unveiled a series of proposals aiming to protect the estimated 61...
Deng-era Reformist Warns of Overreaching Censorship
At South China Morning Post, Nectar Gan reports a newly published warning from former...
China to Loosen Stringent Urban Residency Rules
The State Council has released new guidelines directing local governments to allow migrants from...
Memories of Torture and Hope for Redemption
Central authorities have claimed that criminal justice reforms since 2009 have helped to curb the...
Amnesty: Torture Rampant Amid Assault on Rights
With China’s record of using pretrial torture to force confessions currently...
Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping
At The Guardian, Oxford professor and historian Timothy Garton Ash asks whether Xi Jinping can...
CO2 Emissions Fall as China Cuts Coal
In January, just two months after Xi Jinping and Barack Obama jointly pledged to limit carbon...
HRW: Police Torture Continues Despite Reforms
Since 2009, several top court and government rulings have sought to nullify evidence obtained...
Will Party Rule Crumble Without Major Reform?
The current China-focused issue of Foreign Affairs examines the recently hot topic of...
Foreign Affairs: Seven Views on China Now
The heavily China-focused May/June issue of Foreign Affairs includes “seven authoritative...
Questions Loom as Legal Reforms Enter “Deep Water”
The Party’s unveiling of its vision for a “Socialist rule of law” last fall,...
David Shambaugh on Risks to Chinese Communist Rule
Respected China scholar David Shambaugh’s prediction a week ago that “the endgame of...
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