Photo: old tree, old house, by Xianyi Shen
old tree, old house, by Xianyi Shen (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Jul 9, 2024
old tree, old house, by Xianyi Shen (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Read Moreby Samuel Wade | Jul 9, 2024
Tuesday is the ninth anniversary of the 2015 “709” or “Black Friday” crackdown on Chinese rights lawyers. The following account of the episode, its legacy, and the censorship that surrounded it is the...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Jul 8, 2024
Charging station, by Gauthier DELECROIX (CC BY 2.0)
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Jul 8, 2024
Online and offline tributes continue to pour in for Hu Youping, the Chinese school bus attendant who was fatally stabbed when she tried to prevent a knife-wielding man from attacking Japanese schoolchildren and parents at a bus...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Jul 5, 2024
梦里水乡, by Henry So (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Read Moreby Samuel Wade | Jul 5, 2024
This week, defense lawyer He Zhijuan posted her account of a clash between her and her colleagues and court bailiffs in Guizhou. According to one Weibo comment highlighted by CDT Chinese editors, “The situation in this...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Jul 3, 2024
Jinshan mountain (near Hangzhou), by Bianca Polak (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Jul 3, 2024
Chinese social media platforms have announced a belated crackdown on “extreme nationalism” and xenophobic hate-speech online, following last week’s fatal stabbing at a school bus stop in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, in which a...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Jul 2, 2024
Untitled (Shanghai), by Hsiuan Boyen (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Jul 2, 2024
It is well known that many Chinese local governments are cash-strapped, burdened by excessive debt, and searching for ways to replenish their depleted coffers. Reports abound of local governments, utilities, and even police...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Jun 27, 2024
Zhongshan Road, by belfast16 (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Read Moreby Arthur Kaufman | Jun 27, 2024
This week, China’s lunar probe returned to Earth with the first ever samples from the surface of the far side of the moon. This historic feat is a milestone for China’s space program, but it has provoked anxiety among U.S....
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Jun 26, 2024
Last week, Chinese feminist activists in nine cities around the world held rallies and displayed banners demanding the release of journalist and feminist activist Huang Xueqin and labor-rights activist Wang Jianbing, who were...
Read Moreby Alexander Boyd | Jun 26, 2024
A stabbing at a school bus stop in Eastern China that left two Japanese nationals and a Chinese national injured is the latest instance of anti-foreigner violence to rock China in the last month. Two weeks ago, four instructors...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Jun 25, 2024
Wukang Road, city walk in Shanghai, by QuantFoto (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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