When protests broke out in the Arab world in 2010, leading to revolutions in some countries, Chinese leaders took note. Their concerns that rampant corruption and inequality could threaten the Party’s legitimacy is being...
Read MoreMark Rowswell has written a lengthy response to a question on Quora: why do so many Chinese learners seem to hate his alter-ego, Dashan? He explains how he thinks the character gained its enormous popularity in China, and the...
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Read MoreOne year ago, writer and activist Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize from his jail cell. Since then, he has only been allowed out of prison once to mourn the death of his father. His wife, Liu Xia, has been held under house...
Read MoreChina Media Project summarizes and discusses a talk given by CMP fellow Zhang Jiang (展江) in which he calls for an end to the ban on “cross-regional reporting,” or reporting outside a journalist’s home province,...
Read MoreShanghai-based blogger Persian Xiaozhao published this post on March 10, 2009 on her second Sohu blog (the first one was censored on Jan. 13, 2009, after her article: “I Signed My Name After a Good Cry”). On March...
Read MoreFrom RFA: Political prisoners across China are being denied family visits over the traditional Lunar New Year holiday period, their relatives and close friends said. The daughter of Wuhan dissident Qin Yongmin, who is serving a...
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: Chen’s challenge to country justice makes him a kind of Rosa Parks of China. His standoff with Linyi authorities and Mayor Li Qun, who served briefly as assistant to the mayor of New Haven Conn., has captured the imagination of legal reformers here and top foreign legal eagles – raising […]
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