Rights Lawyers and Rule of Law: Interview with Eva Pils
In a three-part conversation with China Law and Policy’s Elizabeth M. Lynch, the Chinese...
May 14, 2014
In a three-part conversation with China Law and Policy’s Elizabeth M. Lynch, the Chinese...
Jun 6, 2013
The new website China Change has translated a lengthy essay by rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong, in which he reflects on his work – and changes in Chinese society – over the past decade. Xu Zhiyong founded the Open...
Mar 19, 2013
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Central Propaganda Department: With regards to the relatives of Sun Zhigang conducting tomb...
Nov 12, 2012
The following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies...
Feb 11, 2008
A follow up to CDT’s previous post on Yu Huafeng, from Time’s The China Blog: Days after a Hong Kong reporter was released from a Chinese jail, another Chinese journalist has been freed. Yu Huafeng, an editor at the...
Dec 5, 2006
I’ve asked a few of China’s more celebrated journalists why it is that they tend to neglect their celebrity blogs. The main reason, they say, is because the same Chinese portals who so wish to host their blogs often cannot publish their posts. In his own roundabout way, Sohu.com news editor Chen Feng ÈôàÂ≥∞ (pictured) […]
Jun 26, 2006
From The Southern Weekend (in Chinese), translated by EastSouthWestNorth: Why was the academician’s stolen computer returned safe and sound ten days later? Were the “motorcycle robbers” acting “in collusion” with the police? After Southern Daily reported the robbery case of academician Zhong Nanshan on June 14, netizens were full of doubts. In the Southern Daily […]
Aug 1, 2004
Philip Pan at Washington Post did a very good job covering the story of Cheng Yizhong, the Southern Metropolis Daily and the “new journalism” in China. “……The newspaper also began to distinguish itself with more critical reporting on such social problems as crime and corruption, causing a sensation, for example, with a report on restaurants […]