While territorial disputes have long played a role in Chinese economic and foreign policy, China’s growing resources have allowed it to adopt more ambitious and expansive tactics in asserting its territorial claims. However, as...
Surveillance in Chinese cities is ubiquitous, with highly visible security cameras trained on most every intersection, public space, and building, but over the past decade, it has been seeping into the countryside as well. In an...
Even before the lifting of China’s long-standing “zero-COVID” policy in early December of last year, there were signs of a surge in Omicron cases nationwide. Since then, China has experienced a tsunami of infections—first in...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. Notice: From June 28 onward, all...
Award-winning writer and independent film producer David Bandurski is the editor of the China...
Following a gradual erosion of faith in Wukan’s democratic experiment, South China Morning...
As part of a continuing series on urbanization in China, Ian Johnson reports for The New York...
Naomi Ng reports for CNN that farmers from Jianshe Village in Southwest China have...
An encounter on Xi Jinping’s latest visit to the countryside underscores the extent to which...
At Bloomberg Businessweek, Christina Larson talks to chinadialogue’s Sam Geall, lecturer at Oxford University and editor of a new book, China and the Environment, about the Chinese public’s growing environmental...
In Hubei’s Yunxian County, some come to sell their blood plasma — 600 cc for 168 yuan — to make ends meet. From China Youth Daily [CN], excerpted and translated by CDT: The white boat with 35 passengers...
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