Confucius Institutes and Academic Freedom
by Sophie Beach | May 1, 2017
In recent years, China’s Confucius Institutes–a program under the Ministry of...
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by Sophie Beach | Apr 29, 2017
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Read MoreGlobal Decline in Press Freedom Also Hits China
by Grace | Apr 29, 2017
Freedom House’s newly released Freedom of the Press 2017 report found that there has been a...
Read MoreLawyer Li Heping Receives Suspended Sentence
by SW | Apr 28, 2017
Rights lawyer Li Heping has received a suspended prison sentence for subverting state power...
Read MoreBook of the Week: “Harbinger of History”
by Josh Rudolph | Apr 28, 2017
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Read MoreMinitrue: Official Comments on Trump’s Tax Plan
by Josh Rudolph | Apr 28, 2017
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Read MoreBan on “Extreme” Muslim Baby Names in Xinjiang
by Josh Rudolph | Apr 27, 2017
In the latest of a series of recent regulations aimed at combatting “religious...
Read More“Chinese Tour Groups Suck”
by SW | Apr 27, 2017
At Startup Grind on Medium (h/t Matthew Sheehan’s Chinafornia newsletter), Panpan Wang...
Read MoreTycoon’s Facebook, Twitter Accounts Suspended
by SW | Apr 27, 2017
Property tycoon Guo Wengui has recently leveled accusations of corruption against top members of...
Read MoreSun Liping (孙立平): Between Civilization and Barbarism
by Josh Rudolph | Apr 27, 2017
Tsinghua University Professor of Sociology Sun Liping last week launched the WeChat public account...
Read MoreEvaluating the Urban-Rural Wealth Gap
by Sophie Beach | Apr 26, 2017
The hukou, or household registration, system has long divided China’s urban and rural...
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