With two recent cases of contaminated pork, the issue of food safety in China is still in the news. The Wall Street Journal reports on a village outside Changsha where hundreds of people were sickened over the weekend after...
Read MoreChina’s Foreign Ministry and official media has confirmed that Ai Weiwei is being held on suspicion of “economic crimes.” From the Guardian: Foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a regular news conference...
Read MoreAs last week’s calls for Jasmine Revolution protests went out over the Internet, Chinese police began calling foreign reporters to warn them against reporting on any incidents of unrest. Reporters who did report from the...
Read MoreConflicting opinions abound about how relevant the ongoing protests in Egypt are for China. On Project Syndicate, Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen writes that, from an economic perspective, there are many similarities...
Read MoreThe following document was co-written in March 2010 by the Zhejiang Public Security Bureau and the Zhejiang Department of Public Health as an internal document to detail the process by which certain categories of citizens,...
Read MoreBest-selling novelist Ai Mi (艾米) shared her thoughts on Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize in an Asia Weekly article. Her comments are interspersed with comments from other acclaimed authors, Zhou Duo (周舵) and Ye Fu (野夫), who...
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: China’s best-known dissident today won the prestigious Nobel peace prize from the prison cell where he is serving 11 years for incitement to subvert state power. Liu Xiaobo was detained at his Beijing...
Read MoreFollowing is the latest installment in a series of posts by journalist Rachel Beitarie*, who will be sharing with us dispatches from her journey across rural China. In this post, Rachel visits the rural village Beiya, halfway...
Read MoreSouthern People Weekly reports on China’s sixth population census, which will allow unregistered households to become registered. Translated by CDT: China’s sixth population census will go underway in the next 4...
Read MoreThe following blog post was written by blogger Caomin, who says he is a college student in the interior of China. According to him, it is a transcript of a conversation between him and an officer of the Domestic Security...
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