In recent weeks, both the Nobel prize-winning novelist Mo Yan and the Chinese bottled water company Nongfu Spring have come under fire from extreme Chinese nationalists, who have accused them of being insufficiently patriotic....
Acclaimed writer Peter Hessler is selling his car in Chengdu, after leaving China in 2021 when his teaching contract was abruptly terminated. Online, the sale of his Honda CRV has spurred a series of reflections on Hessler’s...
Starting in March 2008, Tibetans across the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), Qinghai, Gansu, and Sichuan took to the streets to call for religious freedom and an end to oppressive political and social controls and...
The (talk) show is over. Comedian Li Haoshi, who made a joke involving the People’s Liberation Army last weekend, has been detained by Beijing police according to a report from BBC’s Chinese news service. As of publication, no...
Popular online writer Shen Maohua, who writes under the pen name Wei Zhou, is known for his trenchant and often humorous essays, lively social media comments sections, and occasional brushes with platform censors. In this...
While the ongoing lockdown of Xi’an has thrust millions of people into health and food insecurity, online public outrage must contend with state media’s heart-warming stories of “noodles helping noodles.” Even Jia Pingwa, the...
Born, raised, and based in Wuhan, writer Fang Fang began her first hand chronicles of life in the original epicenter of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on January 25—two days after authorities launched an unprecedented lockdown in...
The COVID-19 coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, Hubei late last year. After belated government acknowledgment of a public health crisis, authorities began an ongoing lockdown of Wuhan in January as the city and country at large...
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short...
Democracy activist and writer Yang Tongyan, also known by the pen-name Yang Tianshui, died at age...
Last week, according to the U.S. government-backed Radio Free Asia, domestic security officers in...
Shanghai-born blogger, author, director, singer, restaurateur, and race car driver Han Han...
Radio Free Asia reports that writer, historian, and frequent critic of China’s ethnic...
While Xi Jinping has made stating his appreciation for literature—both foreign and domestic—a...
On the Sinica podcast, Ian Johnson joins Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn, and David Moser to discuss...
The who’s who of the U.S. publishing industry are gathering today in New York for the...
Free expression and literacy advocacy group PEN America this week released the report...
At the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson discusses author Peter Hessler’s enormous...
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