Gravel-voiced and irreverent, Zuoxiao Zuzhuo has been called “China’s Leonard Cohen.” Singing about forced demolitions and food safety scandals, he has collaborated with the Cowboy Junkies and his good friend Ai Weiwei (whose...
Read MoreFimmaker, photographer and author Du Bin has been released after five weeks in detention in Beijing. On May 31, Du disappeared from his apartment in Beijing and was held by police. Du was released on Monday, though he may still...
Read MorePollution from coal used for winter heating cuts individual life expectancies in northern China by more than five years relative to those in the south, according to a newly published study. The research comes on top of recent...
Read MoreFormer railways minister Liu Zhijun received a suspended death sentence on Monday for accepting bribes of almost 65 million yuan, though the true total of his ill-gotten gains is reportedly closer to a billion yuan in cash,...
Read MorePolice in a Tibetan region of Sichuan province opened fire on a crowd that had gathered to celebrate the Dalai Lama’s birthday on Saturday, according to the U.S.-based International Campaign for Tibet. From Reuters:...
Read MoreAccording to a new report from the Hong Kong Journalists Association, press freedom in Hong Kong has reached a new low since Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying took office last year. The report’s publication follows a series...
Read MoreAs the United States begins trade talks with Europe this week and prepares for the next round of negotiations with Japan and others on the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership, experts and business leaders expect the...
Read MoreAccording to accounts on social media from women’s rights activist Ye Haiyan and supporters, security police forcibly evicted Ye and her family from their rental home in Zhongshan, Guangdong province on Saturday. After a...
Read MoreA young deputy township head in Sichuan recently posted an open resignation letter expressing disillusionment with issues including the constant distraction of “stability preservation” work. At China Media Project,...
Read MoreIn a New York Times op-ed, author Yu Hua complains that by compelling regular contact with parents with China’s recently amended “filial piety law”, the Party is using legislation to replace values that it...
Read MoreLiberal Peking University economics professor Xia Yeliang, a vocal supporter of free speech and a friend of the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, told the South China Morning Post on Monday that his peers will vote...
Read MorePeople in China continue to mourn high school students Wang Linjia and Ye Mengyuan who were killed in the Asiana Airlines crash at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday. More details have emerged about the girls, who...
Read MoreXinhua English made a brief announcement on Monday morning that Liu Zhijun, China’s former railways minister, was charged with bribery and abuse of power and handed a suspended death sentence by the Beijing No. 2...
Read MoreThe widespread democracy protests in Egypt that accompanied the ousting of Mohammed Morsi from presidential office will both harden Beijing’s grip on power as well as draw its focus on economic interests in the Middle...
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