On Mao’s Birthday, Ambivalence Abounds
December 26th marked the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth, and celebratory...
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Public Satisfaction on Graft “Within Five Years”
In the wake of anti-corruption crackdowns following the Third Plenum, the Chinese government has...
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Yao Jingyuan: A Dog Could Run China’s Banks
Yao Jingyuan, former spokesman and chief economist of the National Bureau of Statistics, has...
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Sensitive Words: Zhou Yongkang’s Dragnet &More
As of December 25, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
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Wife of Purged Ex-leader Zhao Ziyang Dies at 95
The South China Morning Post reports that Liang Boqi, widow of purged former PRC Premier and CCP...
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Badiucao (巴丢草): Chairman Mao, Happy Birthday
For his latest cartoon for CDT, Badiucao adds to the greetings for Mao Zedong, who is being feted...
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Word of the Week: Empty Chair
空椅子 (kōng yǐzi): empty chair Writer and dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was sentenced to an 11-year...
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One-Child Policy to Change in New Year
The Chinese government’s plan to ease its one-child policy in the beginning of next year...
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US Police Department Uses Weibo to Engage Immigrants
Concurring with the recent increase in official accounts on weibo, the Alhambra Police Department...
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Crackdown Stymies China Church’s Christmas Meeting
The AP reports that a Christian congregation’s Christmas meeting in Nanle county, Henan...
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Netizen Voices: Weibo’s Best, Picked by Badiucao
CDT contributing artist Badiucao also blogs under the penname Pedro, gathering political cartoons,...
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Red Rhetoric Heats Up as Mao Turns 120
With the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth close on the horizon, the Irish Times...
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Party Instructs Journalists on Scribing the Chinese Dream
At Sinosphere, Mia Li and Bree Feng introduce ten example questions from a new test on how to be...
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