Yan Lieshan (鄢烈山) is a well-established Chinese columnist and author of fifteen books. Born in Hubei province in 1952, he worked as a farmer, an elementary school teacher, and a government official before joining the news sector...
Read MoreZhang Wen (章文), a thirty-something writer/editor and former head of the editorial department of Xinhua’s Globe magazine, makes the case for “clear-minded” patriotism in China in a recent blog post, translated by...
Read MoreRichard Spencer writes in his Telegraph blog: Prof Xu [Xu Youyu (徐友渔)] said he was deeply pessimistic about the future. He acknowledged the point that there were leaders now in high office who had very similar experiences to his...
Read MoreYang Shiqun (杨师群), a professor of ancient Chinese language at East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai, has become a target of a police investigation after his students informed authorities about the content of his...
Read MoreOn the eve of International Human Rights Day, the Chinese government has arrested prominent dissident writer Liu Xiaobo. Jane Macartney reports for the Times in Beijing: A leading dissident who organised a charter signed by...
Read MoreThe trend in Chinese ideology is going back to harmony (和谐) as a “universal value.” The term “harmonious society” (和谐社会) has been used before by Hu Jintao. As discussed in the fifth annual Beijing Forum...
Read MoreFrom China Media Project, Liu Jiaying and David Bandurski write on a recent conference regarding the rise of Chinese “New Nationalism” (xin guojia zhuyi (新国家主义)) and its impact on journalism within in an already...
Read MoreChina Media Project has the latest on celebrated journalist Zhang Ping (aka Chang Ping), who was recently removed from his post as deputy editor of Southern Metropolis Weekly after he made calls for greater freedom of speech in...
Read MoreHere is an assessment of the Tibet situation by Zhang Boshu (张博树) of the CASS Philosophy Institute in Beijing, translated for CDT by a reader who wishes to remain anonymous: Zhang was born in Beijing in 1955. He received an MA...
Read MoreThe following text was posted by Chunaqinglaowei (纯情老卫) in a popular China-based social networking site Douban.com, but the original author is unknown. Thanks to M.J. for the translation: (It is inconvenient for the author to...
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