Following rare mass protests that broke out in the city of Jiangyou in Sichuan province earlier this month in response to the bullying of a 14-year-old girl, CDT Chinese editors have tracked unusually intense online censorship...
Earlier this month, a massive earthquake struck Tibet and severely damaged numerous monasteries and nunneries. Recent media articles since then have highlighted other ongoing threats to Tibetan culture from the Chinese...
A stabbing at a school bus stop in Eastern China that left two Japanese nationals and a Chinese national injured is the latest instance of anti-foreigner violence to rock China in the last month. Two weeks ago, four instructors...
If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 in the United States, or find local resources in the International Suicide Prevention Wiki. The murder of a...
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
Two separate incidents in Kunming and Guangxi have resulted in the deaths of several school...
The explosion at a school in Guilin has now been linked to a migrant worker who was in a dispute...
A blast outside a school in Guilin has killed two people and injured at least 18 others. From...
Initial comparisons between the Newtown and Chenpeng school attacks this month tended to focus on the attackers’ weapons. Many noted that the 23 slashed in China all survived, in contrast with the 26 killed in Connecticut....
On Friday in Henan Province, a man walked into a primary school and stabbed 22 children. None were killed. The same day, in Newtown, Connecticut, a man armed with at least three semi-automatic weapons shot his way into an...
The New York Times revisits the case of an assailant who attacked school children with a cleaver and was a suspected schizophrenic to look at the state of mental health care in China: It has been nearly 35 years since the end of...
The Los Angeles Times reports on a new attack on school children in China: The brutal killing of at least three children and a teacher at a school in northeastern China had residents confounded and authorities tight-lipped on...
The assailant in one of the recent attacks on school children in China has been executed. From the BBC: A man who attacked 29 children and three teachers at a nursery school in east China has been executed, state media says. Xu...
A man accused of attacking school children in Taixing, Jiangsu has been sentenced to death. From AFP: Twenty-nine children aged four or under and two teachers and a security guard were injured when Xu attacked them with the...
National Public Radio host Scott Simon wrote a commentary about the recent attacks on children in China: The death of any child is impossible for a parent to bear. But imagine the loss of a child in a place in which most...
Despite a ban in the domestic media on discussion of the recent attacks on children in China, Premier Wen Jiabao has acknowledged that larger societal forces may be a factor in the violence. From the New York Times: Prime...
Li Meijin, noted as a criminal psychology professor at the Chinese People’s Public Security University, published the following OP-ED on the English version of Global Times, a newspaper of People’s Daily: Recent...
Experts interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald say that the recent attacks on school children in China are a result of the government’s focus in recent decades on economic development while not confronting the...
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