People’s Forum, a BBS on the website of the state-run newspaper People’s Daily, launched the “Confidence-Conviction-Faith” survey on March 27 to measure its readers’ commitment to Xi Jinping’s...
Read MoreWhen Xi Jinping was inaugurated as China’s President during the National People’s Congress, he gave a speech on “the Chinese Dream.” In the speech, he elaborated on this concept, according to...
Read MoreWhile Xi Jinping touted the importance of a “Chinese dream” in a speech last week about national revival, Tea Leaf Nation contributor Ellen Li explores what the Xi’s vision means to the masses: On Weibo,...
Read MoreJames Fallows, longtime correspondent for The Atlantic, has released a preview of his forthcoming book China Airborne. While the book will document China’s rapidly developing aerospace industry, the adapted article...
Read MoreMartin Fletcher writes in the Times: In the magnificent new stadiums of their capital, in front of their fanatical compatriots, China’s Olympians have walloped their American counterparts this past fortnight, capturing 16...
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: For more than three years, Khaled Rasheed and his family spent the nights huddled in fear as bombs exploded near their home in Baghdad. Like generations of would-be emigrants before him, he dreamed of a better life elsewhere. But where? Finding a place that was safe was Rasheed’s top priority, but openness […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency via China.org: Four years working as a white-collar worker in China’s largest city of Shanghai, Liu Xiaoqiang feels he’s far from being able to afford his own apartment there. He makes 5,000 yuan (US$640) a month as an IT engineer, but that’s only half the average price for a square meter […]
Read MoreMargaret Hillenbrand, professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford, joined CDT to discuss her two latest books: “On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China” (2023) and “Negative Exposures: Knowing...
Read MoreThese are CDT editors’ selections of their favorite posts from CDT and elsewhere around the web over the course of 2023: Sophie Beach CDT Pick: Translation: The Women of “Salt Town,” by Cindy Carter I found this...
Read MoreA Singapore paper’s publication of a blistering opinion piece criticizing Xi Jinping did not escape notice on Weibo, where netizens surreptitiously praised it. Titled “The Economy Is The Problem, Its Root Is Politics,” the...
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