Three More Detained in Labor Crackdown
Three social workers were detained last week in police raids as China’s crackdown on labor...
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LatestMinireview: 2018 in Censorship (Oct-Dec)
This series is a recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government authorities in...
Minitrue: Do Not Report Black Lung Protests
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Detained Activist Yue Xin on the Jasic Workers
About 50 student activists and workers advocating in Shenzhen for the establishment of an...
Woman Tapes Police Abuse: “I’ll Teach You a Lesson”
Video of a police officer verbally abusing two women on the drive to the police station has...
Landslide Casts Shadow Over China’s Success Story
An official investigation has been launched after Sunday’s massive landslide in Shenzhen buried...
Landslide Renews Questions on Risks of Rapid Growth
On Monday, rescue work continued at an industrial park in Shenzhen a day after a massive landslide...
Dozens Missing After Landslide in Shenzhen
Citing Chinese state media, the BBC reports that at least 59 are missing after a landslide buried...
China Cracks Down on Hong Kong Evangelists
On July 1, Hong Kong-based Lutheran pastor Philip Woo was called to the religious affairs bureau...
Hangzhou Police Accused of Being Alibaba’s Thugs
A Shenzhen-based webmaster who had published online articles critical of Alibaba says he was...
Maoming Protests Continue, Officials Admit Injuries
Protests that began Sunday against a proposed paraxylene (PX) plant in Maoming, Guangdong...
Inside BGI, China’s Genomics Factory
The New Yorker’s Michael Specter visits BGI Shenzhen, the world’s largest sequencer of...
High-Speed Rail Network Passes 12,000km Mark
The opening of the Shenzhen-Xiamen and several other high-speed rail lines on Saturday brought the...
Ministry of Truth: Revolutionary Spirit
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Activists Detained at Hu Jia’s Birthday Dinner
Human rights activist Hu Jia and his supporters were briefly detained in Shenzhen on Thursday night while celebrating Hu’s 40th birthday. From South China Morning Post: Shenzhen police detained prominent activists Hu Jia,...
Shenzhen ‘Good Samaritan’ Law Comes Into Effect
China’s first “Good Samaritan law” (好人法), passed in February, comes into effect next month. A China Daily article from earlier this month explains the city regulation, suggesting that a similar state law could...
Peter Hessler’s ‘Strange Stones’ Reviewed
At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Pallavi Aiyar reviews Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West by Peter Hessler, former China correspondent for The New Yorker. She discusses the tight focus of Hessler’s writing on...
Preventing Tiananmen Mourning at Shenzhen U.
Last year, Hong Kongers staged a “black shirt campaign” to mourn the victims of the Tiananmen Massacre, commemorated on June 4. The campaign has returned this year as well. Now it appears that Shenzhen University is...
