Photo: 象鼻窝森林公园（石潭水库), by z j
象鼻窝森林公园（石潭水库), by z j (CC BY-NC 2.0)
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Lit Mag Announces Sudden Closure After Cover Seemingly Satirizes Xi Jinping
A popular periodical featuring essays and nonfiction writing announced that it is suspending operations after 35 years. The announcement followed online chatter that the December cover was an oblique criticism of Xi Jinping. Xi...
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Photo: 爨底下村, by Wing
爨底下村, by Wing (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Read MoreInterview: Lobsang Yangtso on Tibet’s Environmental Crisis
As the U.N. COP28 Climate Summit is underway in the United Arab Emirates, bringing together thousands of political leaders and environmental activists, one topic that is sure to get little attention there is the environmental...
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Photo: Untitled (2023 KiteFoil World Series China, in Zhuhai, Guangdong), by International Kiteboarding Association
Untitled (2023 KiteFoil World Series China, in Zhuhai, Guangdong), by International Kiteboarding...
Read MoreBuddhist Promotion Lands Tea Company in Hot Water
A tea company is in hot water after Shenzhen officials deemed its latest marketing campaign to be “borderline” illegal. Hey Tea (喜茶, xǐ chá), a popular national beverage chain, recently partnered with the Jingdezhen China...
Read MoreReappearance of Dreaded “Health Codes” Stokes Alarm
As the one-year anniversary of the lifting of China’s “zero-COVID” policy approaches, residents in many provinces in China have been dismayed and alarmed by the apparent return of mobile phone app-based health codes. Screenshots...
Read MoreInterview: Leta Hong Fincher on Advances and Setbacks in Women’s Rights Over the Past Decade
In 2014, Leta Hong Fincher published her first book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, which used the lens of home ownership and marital property rights to examine women’s rights in China and the...
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Photo: Crater Lake of Changbai Mountain, by Joe Jiang
Crater Lake of Changbai Mountain, by Joe Jiang (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Read MoreWeibo User Banned After Reporting Nationalist Pundit Hu Xijin for Illegal VPN Use
Current affairs blogger Xiang Dongliang has had his Weibo account banned for reporting Hu Xijin, a nationalist blogger and retired editor-in-chief of the Global Times, for using a VPN to circumvent the Great Firewall of China...
Read MoreTranslation: Lu Dewen—“Bureaucratic Formalism Has Made It Impossible for Local Cadres to Get Anything Done”
In a recent essay, Lu Dewen (吕德文, Lǚ Déwén)—a sometimes controversial Wuhan University sociologist whose research focuses on rural governance—argues that bureaucratic formalism, meaningless busywork, and technological hegemony...
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Photo: 扬州 东关街, by song zhen
扬州 东关街, by song zhen (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Read MoreFamous Chef Accused of Mocking Mao, Again
Mao Anying, Mao Zedong’s son, was killed by American bombers on November 25, 1950 while fighting in the Korean War. A persistent, unfounded, rumor (officially tagged as “historically nihilist”) holds that the younger Mao gave...
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Photo: Le bouilleur d’eau, by Gongashan
Le bouilleur d’eau, by Gongashan (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Read MoreInterview: Tenzin Norgay on the State of Surveillance and Propaganda in Tibet Today
In the latest installment in our interview series focusing on Tibet, we talk to Tenzin Norgay, a Research Analyst at the International Campaign for Tibet, where he has written reports on surveillance, propaganda, and the...
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