Journalist Li Datong writes for China Dialogue about the emerging online civil society movement that scored an important victory with its opposition to the Green Dam filtering software: Opposition took a range of forms. Some...
Read MoreThe Christian Science Monitor reports on one positive outcome of last year’s devastating earthquake in Sichuan: a stronger Chinese civil society: Last year’s earthquake, which provoked a tsunami of sudden sympathy...
Read MoreOrganized and moderated by Xiao Qiang of the China Internet Project at the Graduate School of Journalism, and sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies of UC Berkeley, Shorenstein Foundation, Luce Foundation, Berkeley China...
Read MoreFrom The East Asia Forum: The recent strikes of taxi drivers in some places in China is a good example.China has always put economic development and social stability as the top priority. But in the past, stability was achieved...
Read MoreThe Nautilus Institute has published a report on social unrest in China, which discusses several recent incidents: We can identify several common characteristics in these incidents: first, they were all caused by accidents,...
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: International visitors to Beijing during the Olympics will be impressed by the “Bird’s Nest” Olympic stadium, the millions of flowers adorning the streets of China’s capital and the freshly repainted...
Read MoreWritten by Jia Xijin (贾西津), Associate Professor at the NGO Research Center at Tsinghua University, from Policy Forum Online: The 512 Sichuan Earthquake jolted more than half of China. The rescue process and disaster relief...
Read MoreThe Far Eastern Economic Review takes a close look at the state of civil society in China in the wake of the Wenchuan earthquake: The obvious question about civil society in China is, “How free is it?” Are Chinese NGOs really...
Read MoreChina Media Project translates an op-ed from the Yanzhao Metropolis Daily which argues that China needs more input from civil society groups to effectively deal with crises like the current snow emergency: But there are...
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Many NGOs are active in China today. They address a wide range of issues and represent diverse constituencies… They provide much-needed services where none existed before, raise public awareness of important issues, and help push the government to provide better care and protection for vulnerable and disadvantaged members of society. On the […]
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