Translation: Zhang Qianfan on Academic Censorship
Xi Jinping has long put focus on ideological work in China’s universities and colleges,...
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Xi Jinping has long put focus on ideological work in China’s universities and colleges,...
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On November 14, 2018, social scientist, professor, and co-founder of Hong Kong’s 79-day...
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In late July, as the #MeToo movement was gaining momentum in China after a slow start, a woman...
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Xiao Han, a law professor at China University of Political Science and Law, had his classes cancelled by the university, and no explanation was given. He has written an open letter to the dean of the Law Department, which...
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After a decades-long infrastructure spending spree, many of China’s local governments now find themselves saddled with unsustainable levels of debt and a surplus of vastly ambitious but often underutilized infrastructure...
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The use of the standard Party formulation of Xi Jinping “pointing the way forward” on various policy issues has become so commonplace that the phrase has become an object of satire, a way of mocking Xi’s cult of personality and...
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Last month, an otherwise innocuous report at Sixth Tone on cloning of Tibetan cattle referred to the region only by its Chinese name, Xizang, falling in line with a recent push by Chinese authorities. For some, this symbolized a...
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February 6 marked the four-year anniversary of the death of Dr. Li Wenliang, a young ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital whose attempts to warn colleagues of an emerging novel coronavirus made him an heroic symbol of free...
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Some recent restrictions placed on historical books, museum exhibits, and academic discourse have brought renewed attention to the Chinese Communist Party’s attempts to rewrite history, control the historical narrative, and...
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