Detentions Continue as Tiananmen Anniversary Nears

by Samuel Wade | May 31, 2014

Yet more detentions have been added to the dozens already carried out ahead of the 25th...

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Photo: Monument to the People’s Heroes, 1980, by Terry Feuerborn

by Sophie Beach | May 30, 2014

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274 Quotes From Xi Jinping

by Grace | May 30, 2014

The Chinese government has released a book featuring quotations from President Xi Jinping in a...

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Why Have Reforms in China Failed?

by Samuel Wade | May 30, 2014

Following Anne Stevenson-Yang and Ken DeWoskin’s discussion of what Beijing means by reform,...

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Minitrue: Crackdown Includes Registration for Matches

by Josh Rudolph | May 30, 2014

The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...

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Lawmakers Push “Liu Xiaobo Plaza” to Shame Embassy

by Samuel Wade | May 30, 2014

U.S. lawmakers are pressing for a street outside China’s Washington embassy to be renamed in honor...

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Minitrue: Peng Liyuan’s Power

by Josh Rudolph | May 30, 2014

The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...

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Church-State Clash Coalesces Around a Toppled Spire

by Samuel Wade | May 30, 2014

Zhejiang officials denied that the demolition of the Sanjiang church in Wenzhou last month was...

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Troubled Times: Voices of Tibetan Refugees, Part 2

by Anne Henochowicz | May 30, 2014

This is part two of a four-part series. Read Part 1 here. In the summer of 2010, writer and...

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What Might Twitter In China Look Like?

by Samuel Wade | May 29, 2014

In brief comments at Code Conference on Wednesday, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said that while the...

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Chengguan Ranked China’s Least-Loved Public Officials

by Samuel Wade | May 29, 2014

A new survey from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences sheds light on tarnished public...

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US Teacher: ‘I Did 7 Months of Forced Labor in China’

by Josh Rudolph | May 29, 2014

NPR’s All Things Considered tells the story of Stuart Foster, an American sociology...

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Photo: Mao fans, by Gabriel Prehn Britto

by Samuel Wade | May 29, 2014

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Myanmar: Dragon at the Doorstep

by Josh Rudolph | May 29, 2014

While heavily-disputed and sometimes illegal Chinese extraction projects in Myanmar contribute to...

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Cremation Rules Spur Elderly Suicides in Anhui

by Natalie Ornell | May 29, 2014

Didi Kirsten Tatlow at The New York Times reports that some elderly people in Anhui have committed...

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