Why the ABA Downplayed China’s Rights Crackdown
The Xi administration’s wide-reaching crackdown on civil society activism escalated in July...
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Holiday of the Week: Chinese Thanksgiving
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
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Memories of Torture and Hope for Redemption
Central authorities have claimed that criminal justice reforms since 2009 have helped to curb the...
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Woeser on Feathering Ai Weiwei’s Wing
As Ai Weiwei asks supporters to drop donated Lego through the sunroofs of strategically parked...
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News Ethics, Media Controls, and Investigative Journalism
For ChinaFile, David Bandurski writes about the current status of journalism in China and Xi...
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Student Fights Homophobia in Chinese Textbooks
The Washington Post’s Emily Rauhala reports on Chen Qiuyan (aka Qiu Bai), a 20-year-old...
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HK ‘Umbrella Soldiers’ Win Seats In Local Elections
On Sunday, eight supporters of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, known as “Umbrella...
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Rewriting History: Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang
Last week, President Xi Jinping and other leaders commemorated the centenary of the birth of...
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Mobile Data Cut for VPN, WhatsApp Users in Xinjiang
The New York Times’ Paul Mozur reports that mobile Internet users in Xinjiang have had their...
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College Counselors Told to Join the Party
Since coming to power, the Xi Jinping administration has focused on strengthening Party ideology...
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Censorship, Counterterrorism, and Double-Standards
Earlier this week, Radio Free Asia reported that police in Xinjiang had killed 17...
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President Xi Jinping Praises Hu Yaobang
At a symposium commemorating the centenary of Hu Yaobang’s birth, President Xi Jinping...
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