The New York Times looks at working conditions for China’s migrant laborers in the wake of the the Foxconn suicides: The rash of suicides has intensified scrutiny of the working and living conditions at Foxconn, the...
Read MoreIn Nanjing, a 5-month-old baby has died due to a doctor’s prioritizing online games over his hospital duties. The doctor has since been fired. From Associated Press: A 5-month-old baby died in a hospital amid pleas for...
Read MoreJonathan Ansfield reports for the New York Times on Hu Shuli’s plans following her departure from Caijing, following the recent upheaval at the well-respected financial magazine: In a well-publicized exodus earlier this...
Read MoreRichard McGregor of Financial Times writes about the Central Organization Department, a department that wields tremendous influence in the government and in industry. […] The Central Organisation Department is its third...
Read MoreWen Jiabao visited Peking (Beijing) University to reassure students facing employment difficulties. From Reuters, via The Guardian: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, in a surprise visit to a Beijing university, tried reassuring...
Read MoreWhile it appears to be working so far, Ivy Wang of Sun Yat-sen University argues, the cozy relationship between Chinese state media and the country’s nationalistic netizens seems bound to backfire on the government. From...
Read MoreFrom Time: For Huang Zhimin, a senior at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, there was only one way out of the small town in Guangxi where he was raised: three days in the summer of 2004 in a stuffy city testing center, sweating over China’s National College Entrance Examination ” or gaokao, as the […]
Read MoreThe South China Morning Post reports on a talk by mainland philosophy professor Yuan Weishi, whose essay about Chinese history was cited by the government in their decision to close down Freezing Point Weekly: Speaking avidly about how China should learn from mistakes in history — a balanced account not distorted by the authorities — […]
Read MoreThe link below is to a ground-breaking documentary film, produced by Professor Ai Xiaoming, about the protests at Taishi village. UPDATE: For copyright reasons, CDT has removed the link to the video. Please see below for...
Read MoreA South China Morning Post article (via Asia Media) argues that public pressure and online activism, especially from prominent lawyers and intellectuals, led to the release of Southern Metropolis News editor Cheng Yizhong. The story quotes a Sun Yat-sen University professor: “Professor Yuan said intellectuals had taught mainland leaders a lesson about contemporary society, which […]
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