After electing a new village chief and one deputy on Saturday, voters in Wukan went back to the polls on Sunday to vote in run-off contests to choose a second deputy and fill the four remaining seats on a newly-created village...
Read MoreThe Chinese New Year sees hundreds of millions return to their hometowns, placing an enormous strain on transport networks that are frequently already stretched. Many will take home partners to meet the parents, but the...
Read MoreWhile the siege of Wukan appears to have ended with yesterday’s compromise by Communist Party officials, Hong Kong newspapers are reporting that protests 75 miles away in Haimen intensified today over plans to build a...
Read MoreFor those who were disappointed that Apple announced the iPhone 4S instead of the widely-anticipated iPhone 5 at today’s press event, rest assured that knockoff iPhone 5s are already available in China. From Penn Olson:...
Read MorePhotographer Jordan Pouille has spent time at the massive Foxconn campus outside Shenzhen, the site of 13 worker suicides this year and the primary supplier for Apple and other global high-tech companies. He gets to know the...
Read More[Photo of Liu Xia taken in Beijing on September 29 by Jordan Pouille] Liu Xiaobo’s wife Liu Xia was able to meet with the Nobel laureate and tell him about the honor despite the fact that she is under de facto house arrest...
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, translated by CDT: On September 14, 2009, Wen Jiabao, Premier of the State Council met 达吾提·阿西木 （Dawuti Aximu, in Mandarin), a Uighur peasant from Xinjiang in the premier’s office in Zhongnanhai, Beijing....
Read MoreColorful Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei will be traveling across Europe this autumn to participate in various contemporary art exhibitions. French journalist Jordan Pouille went to his house on the outskirts of Beijing...
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