On January 30, 2013, China’s National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science published on their website a lengthy list of focus areas for 2013 research proposals [zh]. The 60-item list details many propaganda...
Read MoreIn the wake of a leadership transition and at the end of an erratic year – full of scandalous political plummets, diplomacy-testing activist escapes and enflamed nationalism, one can only wonder what will come in 2013....
Read MoreXi Jinping, who recently took over as chief of the Chinese Communist Party, traveled last week to Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, in a replay of Deng Xiaoping’s 1992 trip which launched broad-ranging economic reforms. His...
Read MoreForeign Policy’s Christina Larson contrasts the plight of young professionals in Beijing with the conspicuous consumption and misbehavior of the children of China’s elites, suggesting that an inequality of privilege...
Read MoreLast week, CDT linked to Edward Steinfeld’s article in Boston Review in which he argued that Taiwan and South Korea provided examples for China’s political future. Now, Boston Review has invited a number of other...
Read MoreWhile civil rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong is being held for tax evasion, he is featured in the August issue of the Beijing publication Mr. Fashion 《时尚先生》(the Chinese version of Esquire).* The theme of this issue is “Chinese...
Read MoreFederico Rampini is La Repubblica’s Asia Chief Correspondent and Senior Global Columnist. He was invited at the National University of Seoul, South Korea, to give a lecture on the impact of the global economic crisis on...
Read MoreTime Magazine writes about the recent reforms in land ownership laws for China’s farmers: Three decades ago, the Party approved another set of rural reforms, liberating a billion peasants from the collectivized farming...
Read MoreBen L. Read, from the Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa, has been researching grassroots organizing with a particular focus since 1999 on homeowners movements in China. In a Q&A over email with The...
Read MoreMount Everest is a place many Chinese dream of visiting. The mountain is especially popular amongst modern urbanites who are struggling with daily work and want to relax in a natural, holy place. Below is a group of photos of Mount Everest, taken by a netizen on Tianya.com who spent 30 days on and around […]
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