Xiao Jianhua, the man charged with instigating the toy factory brawl in Shaoguan, Guangdong that led to the July 5 Xinjiang riots, has been sentenced to death. Ben Blanchard of Reuters reports: A court in southern China has...
Read MoreIn the past, official selection put strong emphasis on educational history, and not on actual capabilities of potential cadres. However, statements from officials like Wang Yang, Secretary of the CCP’s Guangdong Committee,...
Read MoreThe New York Times reports on the current whereabouts of Mao Zedong’s sole grandson, Mao Xinyu: He enjoys generous helpings of red braised pork, collects Chinese fans and keeps an unapologetically patriotic blog. Now Mao...
Read MoreDespite the blocking of Twitter, there are still a significant number of Chinese Twitterers who are both outspoken and informative. Here are some of examples of such tweets, translated by CDT. These tweets were all published in...
Read MoreThe defense plea entered by lawyers for activist Tan Zuoren at his trial on August 12 is circulating, though it is often being quickly erased. Nonetheless, many, including Tan’s lawyer Xia Lin, continue to discuss it. CDT...
Read MoreThe Times Online reports that the Chinese Ministry of National Defence have launched their first website, in both Chinese and English: A military analyst, Song Xiaojun, says the site will offer more detail on that spending and...
Read MoreBorn and raised in Xinjiang, Huang Zhangjin (黄章晋) has worked as a journalist for several media organizations and is also a longtime blogger. Huang was also an editor of online forum, Uighur Online. The following post...
Read MoreGlobal Voices translates excerpts of presentations by intellectuals who gathered in Beijing to discuss the past twenty years of the democracy movement, posted by Oiwan Lam. The seminar started with a moment of silence, paying...
Read MoreGlobal Voices translates a conversation, via twitter, between two of China’s Internet pioneers, Isaac Mao and Hu Yong: Q10: If the Internet had been around twenty years ago, do you think society would have been a bit more...
Read MoreThe first law of Chinese cyberpolitics is “Where there are River Crabs, there are Grass-Mud Horses (那里有河蟹，那里就有草泥马).” According to this “Law of the Grass-Mud Horse,” online censorship will always meet...
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