Best-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 MoreThe Nation Magazine has a lengthy report exploring how the American left is approaching the rise of China: Among progressives, there’s certainly no consensus over how to respond to the rise of China. “This drives a...
Read MoreFrom the Caijing Magazine’s chief editor – Hu Shuli: June 28 marked both the first anniversary of civil unrest in Weng An County in Guizhou Province and a remarkably similar incident in Shishou County, Hubei...
Read MoreThe following article is from Xinhuanet.com. Translated by E. Shih. This is Part II. Part I is here. 如何把握群体性事件的处理分寸 黄豁：前几年，地方政府对群体性事件普遍表现出“不适应症”，判断失误、处置失当的例子比比皆是。但从近期的群体性事件来看，地方政府处置水平比过去有所提高，无论是处置思路、处置方式都有一定变化，体现了一定的“学习能力”。 How...
Read MoreFrom AFP: On the eve of reform, China’s regimented media relied on daily slogans, but 30 years on journalists are pushing the envelope, helped by the Internet and other new technologies, even if taboos remain. Most...
Read MoreFrom The East Asia Forum: The recent strikes of taxi drivers in some places in China is a good example.China has always put economic development and social stability as the top priority. But in the past, stability was achieved...
Read MoreBy Shai Oster, via the Wall Street Journal: Mr. Fan is among hundreds of thousands of China’s 130 million migrant workers — known as the “floating population” — being cast out of urban jobs in...
Read MoreIn Gansu, a violent riot broke out after the city of Longnan announced plans to demolish and relocate the city center. From the Los Angeles Times: The violence, one of the most marked instances of social unrest to grip China in...
Read MoreFrom the Woeser’s blog, translated by Perry Link and students of Chinese 153 at Yale University: In March, 2008 the weather was cooler than normal in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, as the anniversary of “March...
Read MoreThe following information was posted on the Beijing-based Tibetan writer Woeser’s blog (hosted outside of China): March 10th 500 monks from Drepong Monastery joined the peaceful demonstration. They were beaten and targeted...
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