A screenshot of a university lecture warning of “seven false tides of thought” within higher education demonstrates the Chinese Communist Party’s continued fear that students do not ascribe to its ideology. The screenshot seems...
In June 2014, a senior inspector from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (the...
Overseas political news website Boxun obtained a purported memo from a telephone conference of the...
A recent flurry of translations at Fei Chang Dao tracks the development of China’s current...
Donald Clarke translates three questions from Shen Kui, former vice dean of Peking University Law...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
With the fifth anniversary of Liu Xiaobo’s most recent arrest, his wife Liu Xia suffering...
Any speculation that the Xi administration would foster an environment welcoming political...
In a newly published talk from last month’s TEDGlobal 2013 conference, venture capitalist Eric X. Li reprises his defense of China’s one-party system, arguing that contrary to Western assumptions, it is characterized...
At The Washington Post, Perry Link and CDT founder Xiao Qiang point out a hollow in Xi Jinping’s “China dream”, between individuals’ material wishes and the “spiritual” goals of the state....
As many Chinese high officials send their kids overseas, some stability-obsessed Party members warn that those children might undermine the “red regime”. From John Garnaut at Foreign Policy: The Arab Spring that...
Perry Link writes on the New York Review of Books blog about the impact of recent revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia on activism in China, and how they give the lie to the official Chinese view that demands for human rights and...
An article in Caixin looks at the tensions between traditional and modern societies and universal values vs. the “China Model Theory,” and what these ideas mean for the future of China: Early this century,...
From blogger Zhang Minchang (张民昌), translated by CDT: On the afternoon of October 8th, 2010, a friend suddenly called me on the phone to say that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize went to Mr. Liu Xiaobo. Thereafter, I received...
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