Sensitive Words: Protest in HK, Scandal in Beijing
As of July 1, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user”...
Read MorePosted by Anne Henochowicz | Jul 2, 2012
As of July 1, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user”...
Read MorePosted by Anne Henochowicz | Jul 1, 2012
It started with organic farms. Now Chinese Communist Party officials in Beijing can enjoy their...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | May 16, 2012
Following a series of damaging stories this year, notably the ousting of Bo Xilai and escape of Chen Guangcheng, The Atlantic’s Damien Ma argues that “for all the financial muscle thrown behind shaping its global...
Read MorePosted by Anne Henochowicz | May 9, 2012
Editor’s Note: The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Feb 20, 2012
In recent months, the Chinese government has emphasized the idea of “cultural reform” and the need for China to generate its own cultural products to compete with those from the West. On February 15, the Central...
Read MorePosted by Scott Greene | Feb 13, 2012
Amid the rumors surfacing about the status of Chongqing vice-mayor and former police chief Wang Lijun, after locals reported a police presence outside the U.S. consulate in Chengdu and Chonqging authorities announced that...
Read MorePosted by Scott Greene | Feb 7, 2012
Rumors are swirling in the foreign press and in both western and Chinese social media around the whereabouts of Wang Lijun, the Chongqing vice-mayor and former police chief credited with carrying out party secretary and...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Jan 31, 2012
Human Rights Watch recently released its 22nd annual World Report, whose 676 pages include a country-by-country overview of human rights developments around the world and a series of essays on themes including the Arab Spring...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Jan 12, 2012
A report written by Tsinghua University sociology professor and former doctorate advisor of presumed next President Xi Jinping, Sun Liping, has been pulled from the web. According to China Media Project, the report was titled...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Dec 20, 2011
Following the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, the Chinese government has moved quickly to maintain its influence over the new regime of Kim’s son, Kim Jong-Un, in an effort to prevent instability on the Korean...
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