Translation: Open Letter on PKU #MeToo Case
Gao Yan was a Chinese literature student at Peking University who killed herself in 1998 after her...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 23, 2018
Gao Yan was a Chinese literature student at Peking University who killed herself in 1998 after her...
by Josh Rudolph | Jan 9, 2018
As previously noted, the efforts of Chinese women to raise awareness of and fight against sexual...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 5, 2017
After serial sexual assault by American movie producer Harvey Weinstein was publicly detailed in...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 17, 2014
The South China Morning Post reports that recent discoveries of sex offenders working in Chinese...
by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 8, 2013
The following propaganda directive was first published by Reporters Without Borders. Central...
by Cindy | Jul 8, 2013
According to accounts on social media from women’s rights activist Ye Haiyan and supporters, security police forcibly evicted Ye and her family from their rental home in Zhongshan, Guangdong province on Saturday. After a...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 28, 2013
After his trial began last week, Lei Zhengfu, the former party secretary of Chongqing’s Beibei district who was removed from office after a sex-tape leaked and went viral, has been sentenced to hefty fines and 13 years in...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 19, 2013
Former party secretary of Chongqing’s Beibei district Lei Zhengfu was removed from office after anti-corruption blogger Zhu Ruifeng leaked a sex-tape of the official and a young woman late last year which quickly went...
by 不忘初心 | Jun 13, 2013
Ye Haiyan, a gender rights activist, was released from police detention but continued to face harassment. From Mimi Lau at the South China Morning Post: She was accused of assaulting three women who stormed into her apartment...
by Josh Rudolph | Mar 29, 2013
Chinese citizens have been accused of Photoshopping the likeness of business and government officials into pornographic photographs to be used for blackmail. Shanghai Daily reported that as of March 18, eight had been arrested...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 5, 2013
The New York Times’ Andrew Jacobs profiles anti-corruption blogger Zhu Ruifeng, whose publication of a sex tape last November brought down 11 Chongqing officials and exposed the extortion ring that had ensnared them. With...
by Anne Henochowicz | Feb 1, 2013
In this week’s edition of Drawing the News, Chinese political cartoonists take on the country’s longest-serving rubber stamper, Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, and the ongoing Chongqing sex scandal.
by Samuel Wade | Jan 27, 2013
Amid conflicting reports about the date of Bo Xilai’s trial, China’s Global Times reported on Monday that the proceedings would not start that day in Guiyang, as previously rumored. According to “a source close...
by 不忘初心 | Dec 26, 2012
In the wake of several recent corruption and sex scandals, a new round of the anti-corruption game has been launched. From Andrew Jacobs at The New York Times: “The anticorruption storm has begun,” People’s Daily, the party...
by Anne Henochowicz | Dec 24, 2012
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by central government authorities, have...
by Anne Henochowicz | Dec 20, 2012
Central Propaganda Department: Li Junwen, the people’s representative of a certain district...
by Anne Henochowicz | Dec 19, 2012
The following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies...
by Anne Henochowicz | Dec 17, 2012
Chinese officialdom has been rocked by a half-dozen sex scandals in the past three weeks alone. The wave may signal that Xi Jinping is staying true to his promise to crack down on corruption. Is this correlation, or causation?...