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After central authorities began tightening their grip over the Internet last summer, China’s...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Jan 15, 2014
After central authorities began tightening their grip over the Internet last summer, China’s...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Oct 15, 2013
Xia Yeliang, an outspoken professor of economics at Peking University, is facing dismissal when...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Aug 29, 2013
Since Xi Jinping came to power just less than a year ago, hopes that his administration would...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Aug 23, 2013
Lawyer and activist Xu Zhiyong has been formally arrested on charges of “assembling a crowd to...
Read MorePosted by Scott Greene | Aug 19, 2013
China’s Communist Party leaders issued a memo in April known as Document No. 9 to...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Feb 3, 2013
An article in the New York Times looks at how intellectuals, activists, lawyers, journalists and others are using China’s constitution to call for political reforms. While the constitution has never limited the...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Dec 26, 2012
An open letter released on Christmas Day seeks to sway the new Party leadership towards renewed political reform, encouraged by Xi Jinping and others’ strong words against corruption and bureaucratic excesses. From...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Oct 28, 2011
Reported executions in China have dropped by 35% over the last year, but this reveals nothing certain about the true number, which is believed to be well into the thousands. So closely guarded is this “state secret”...
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