For the China Media Project, David Bandurski looks at the issue of media quality in light of the unprecedented amount of reporting on the Wenchuan earthquake: Chinese are increasingly savvy media consumers, and there is no...
Read MoreFrom China Elections and Governance: Just how powerful can an 8.0 magnitude earthquake be? Scientists have described the earthquake as being as devastating as hundreds of nuclear explosions, but people in China who witnessed and...
Read MoreChen Peijin translates an article from Southern Weekend about the school in Juyuan, one of many schools that collapsed in the recent earthquake. From his introduction to the translated article: The Juyuan Middle School was one...
Read MoreSun Yan, professor of political science at the City University of New York, Queens College and the Graduate Center, writes in the New York Times: Chinese nationalism over territorial issues also has its family roots. British...
Read MoreLin Qiang (林强), the Deputy Inspector of the Sichuan Education Department, is a Party-recognized model cadre and was given the honor of being one of the Olympic torch bearers. But Lin just submitted a letter to Sichuan provincial...
Read MoreOn the China Media Project, David Bandurski translates an essay by Beijing University professor Zhang Qianfan which argues that only the development of local “democratic mechanisms” could help prevent future...
Read MoreBeijing-based Tibetan writer/blogger Woeser continues her “Tibet Update.” After her blog was attacked last month, she now publishes her writing on overseas Chinese news site Boxun.com here, (A profile of Woeser,...
Read MoreOut of the chaos of online chatter about the Sichuan earthquake comes a detailed essay by a construction engineer calling himself Book Blade （书剑子）that has been winning praise for its analysis. Recently published on Chinese blog...
Read MoreA Chinese student wrote on his blog about how he changed his cynical attitude towards China after the Sichuan earthquake. Qian Minjie, a 23 year old graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University , said that he used to care a...
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