The Long Shadow of 2012’s Shifang Protests
Protests against a planned molybdenum copper plant in Shifang, Sichuan were hailed as a triumph of...
Shifang
Netizen Voices: CCTV Storm and Drang
While China’s state-run CCTV covered Hurricane Sandy extensively, last week’s protests in...
People’s Daily Urges Nationalist’s Arrest
At Tea Leaf Nation, Tom Snyder covers the fallout from an incident during last month’s anti-Japanese protests: prominent nationalist Han Deqiang’s slapping of an elderly man for “disrespecting” Mao...
Cross-Talk Comics: Killing the Messenger
Cross-Talk Comics looks at the last nine months in news and the government response to many...
Directives from the Ministry of Truth: Shifang Fallout
The following example of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by...
Netizen Voices: Blasting the People’s Daily
A July 31 People’s Daily overseas edition editorial simultaneously called for internal reform and...
Tenuous Calm After Pollution Protests (Updated)
AFP reports quiet in Qidong amid a heavy police presence following Saturday’s violent protests against a planned pipeline. “People don’t dare to go out in the streets today,” said a local resident, who...
Pipeline Project Cancelled After Protests (Updated)
Riots broke out in the Jiangsu city of Qidong on Saturday during protests against a pipeline which locals feared would pollute the nearby coastline. From Peter Parks at AFP: Following the clashes, the local police said in their...
Social Media a Boon for Environmentalism in China?
After recent protests in Shifang highlighted the increasingly important role of social media in “mass incidents” in China, Greenpeace’s Monica Tan ponders what the web might mean for environmental activism....
Cross-Talk Comics: The Small Bunch
On July 2, limits were set on trading in Chenguang Biotech (晨光生物) stock to curb speculation [zh]....
Calls for Transparency and a Free Media after Shifang
Now that the protests over a proposed molybdenum copper plant in Shifang, Sichuan have been resolved, observers are focusing on how government controls over information sparked or exacerbated the situation and on the long-term...
No More Politics, Get Back to Studying
In the aftermath of the Shifang protests, Party mouthpiece Global Times published an editorial on...
Netizen Voices: Hu Xijin on Shifang
Protests in Shifang over a planned copper molybdenum plant succeeded in halting the project, but...
Suspicion of Government High After Pollution Protests
The recent large-scale protests over a proposed molybdenum copper plant in Shifang, Sichuan resulted in the cancellation of the plans by the local government. But residents are still angry about the government’s lack of...
Mixed Views & Fisticuffs Over Shifang Protests (Updated)
An online argument about environmental protests in Sichuan, which halted construction of a large molybdenum copper plant, reportedly spilled into a Beijing park on Friday. From Global Times: Wu Danhong, 33, an assistant...
Shifang: A Study in Contrasts
The turmoil in Shifang subsided on Wednesday as the local government canceled plans to build a...
Cross-Talk Comics: The Battle of Shifang
Weibo user gio555 reimagines the crackdown on Shifang protesters as a comedy sketch. Cross-talk,...
Shifang Plant Cancelled, Protesters Released
The planned copper plant in Sichuan Province over which protesters and riot police clashed earlier this week has been cancelled, and those detained during the confrontation released. From Keith Bradsher at The New York Times:...
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