Should the U.S. Bar Chinese Journalists? (Updated)

by Samuel Wade | Dec 12, 2013

The U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China held a roundtable discussion on Wednesday on...

Read More

The Demographic Costs of the One-Child Policy

by Sophie Beach | Dec 12, 2013

With an easing of China’s one-child policy in the works, many observers are reflecting on...

Read More

Tibetan Artists and Writers Defy Information Controls

by Samuel Wade | Dec 12, 2013

For the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy’s Banned Expression campaign, Dechen...

Read More

Photo: Siesta in bicicletta (2001), by tomaradze

by Sophie Beach | Dec 12, 2013

Read More

New Rules Aim to Contain Official Extravagance

by Josh Rudolph | Dec 12, 2013

According to the PEW Research Center, official corruption is considered a “very big...

Read More

As Winter Nears, Beijing is Blanketed in Cabbage

by Josh Rudolph | Dec 12, 2013

The New York Times reports on this year’s stockpile run on cabbage in Beijing, an annual...

Read More

16 Dead After Shenzhen Market Fire

by Josh Rudolph | Dec 12, 2013

CNN reports that a blaze at the Rongjian Farmers’ Market in the southern city of Shenzhen...

Read More

Nelson Mandela: Closer to Mao or Liu Xiaobo?

by Grace | Dec 12, 2013

Bheki Langa, the current ambassador of South Africa to China, favorably compared Nelson Mandela to...

Read More

China Eyes Public Smoking Ban

by Grace | Dec 12, 2013

As one of the world’s largest producers and consumers of tobacco, China has seen a twofold...

Read More

China’s Treatment of Foreign Journalists Examined

by Samuel Wade | Dec 11, 2013

At a roundtable event held by the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China on Wednesday,...

Read More

The Tales of Two Temples

by Samuel Wade | Dec 11, 2013

At Sinosphere, Didi Kirsten Tatlow describes efforts to preserve Beijing’s Ming-dynasty...

Read More

What Do You Know About Xinwen Lianbo?

by Josh Rudolph | Dec 11, 2013

On November 13, the web portal KDNET posted an infographic about CCTV’s flagship news program,...

Read More

Photo: The Empty Square, by Dai Luo

by Samuel Wade | Dec 11, 2013

Read More

Former Security Tsar “Under Virtual House Arrest”

by Samuel Wade | Dec 11, 2013

Reuters Benjamin Kang Lim and Ben Blanchard report that former domestic security chief Zhou...

Read More

Petitioners Drink Pesticide to Protest Demolition of Homes

by Sophie Beach | Dec 11, 2013

In a new show of desperation over forced demolitions of homes, a group of 12 petitioners from...

Read More