At The Washington Post last week, Simon Denyer reported on the expansion of Beijing’s efforts to gather data on public opinion, both online and through surveys: [… T]he government is trying to understand public opinion on...
Read MoreThe Party is listening to the people. At least, it’s starting to listen. Following the rise of Weibo (and now WeChat) as China’s digital fora, authorities at every level of government are hiring polling firms, while...
Read MoreAt Five Books, The Fat Years author Chan Koonchung offers some recommended reading on utopias and dystopias, and discusses how they relate to modern-day China. Among his selections are George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four...
Read MoreActivist Xu Zhiyong, arrested on July 16th after three months of house arrest, has called on others to help “build a free, public-spirited, loving and good China” in a video apparently smuggled out of the prison by a...
Read MoreChinese officials’ sensitivity about appearance has only intensified since sharp-eyed netizens started bringing down officials caught wearing—or even not wearing—luxury watches and other incriminating baubles. Such visible...
Read MoreAs New Zealand dairy company Fonterra deals with the blowback from the recall of some of its milk powder that was contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, the company is now also being fined for alleged price-fixing in China....
Read MoreAmid a flare in the ongoing island dispute that has proven to be a notable bout of tension in long-strained Sino-Japanese relations, Japan has unveiled the Izumo, its largest military vessel since World War II. AP reports: Japan...
Read MoreA People’s Daily Weibo comment on the complaints of the people has only given the people more reason to complain. The state-run paper urged readers to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, rather than throw their hands up at a...
Read MoreLast week, Xi Jinping promoted six senior military officers to the rank of full general, consolidating his influence within the military. From Minnie Chan at South China Morning Post: Cai Yingting, 59, chief of the Nanjing...
Read MoreFor his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab comments on prospects for political reform in China by alluding to a Chinese fable about the frog in the well (井底之蛙). According to the fable, which...
Read MoreRichard Wike, associate director of the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project, writes for CNN on China’s growing pains as it develops towards superpower status. Many have marveled at how China successfully lifted...
Read MoreThe Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
Read MoreHangzhou-based Fulbright fellow Steven Zhang has been conducting research on how the management of factories in Zhejiang province view environmental protection. After describing the term huanbao (环保), Zhang describes his...
Read MoreSince Beijing’s approval of North Korea as a travel destination in 2008, the bad behavior of some Chinese tourists has unsettled their hosts. From Kristine Servando at South China Morning Post: Simon Cockerell, of Koryo...
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