Chinese Braille: Feeling Their Way
As blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng searches for a new post after his controversial departure from New York University, The Economist reports that some of China’s 17 million other visually impaired people are battling...
Read MoreChina’s Blackout of U.S. Media Can No Longer be Ignored
Jim Sciutto, former chief of staff at the U.S. embassy in Beijing, argues that “the time has come to exact a price for unfair behavior” towards American journalists and media companies, such as withholding visas or...
Read MoreChina Accuses GlaxoSmithKline of Corruption
At The New York Times, David Barboza reports the latest development in a series of government probes and proddings of foreign companies in China: confessions, according to the Ministry of Public Security, of corrupt practices...
Read MoreInside the World of a “10-yuan” Sex Worker
The South China Morning Post’s Mimi Lau goes inside the world of a “10-yuan” sex worker, visiting a brothel in rural Guangxi. She paints a grim picture, meeting several women and telling their often tragic...
Read MoreThe Highs and Lows of China’s High Rollers
Al Jazeera’s Witness this week features a documentary about gambling addicts in Hong Kong. High/Low follows two Hong Kong locals who have lost money, pride, and the trust of loved ones around them. Michael, an older man, lost...
Read MoreGuangxi River Pollution Highlights Broader Issues
Xinhua reports that five officials in Guangxi have been suspended over heavy metal contamination in the Hejiang river. The owner of one processing plant has also been detained, but as Businessweek’s Christina Larson...
Read MoreDozens Buried in Sichuan Landslide
Heavy rainstorms hit south-west China this week, triggering a landslide on Wednesday which buried up to 40 people in the city of Dujiangyan, an area previously devastated by the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. Rescuers have so far...
Read MoreAfter Epic Escape, Chen Guangcheng Mired in Partisan U.S.
Following heated controversy last month over legal activist Chen Guangcheng’s departure from New York University, The New York Times’ Andrew Jacobs reports a tangled political “tug of war over Mr. Chen and his...
Read MoreFatal Misperception: How Unsafe Is Chinese Food?
At the Council on Foreign Relations, Yanzhong Huang challenges official claims that China’s food safety problems are overblown, and prescribes a more extensive, stringent and streamlined regime of food inspections. Is...
Read MoreChina Missing From Global Corruption Report
When China placed 80th out of 176 countries in Transparency International’s 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index, some netizens suggested that the organization must have been bribed to give it such a high ranking. But when TI...
Read MoreA Literary Guide to China
As part of a Telegraph series of guides to literature from around the world, Oxford University professor of modern Chinese history and politics Rana Mitter gives an overview of some great books about China: When people think of...
Read MoreTsering Woeser: Tweeting the Truth
At The Times of India, Shobhan Saxena profiles Tsering Woeser, the prominent Tibetan dissident writer: Born in Tibet in 1966, Woeser is a poet, writer, blogger and chronicler of Tibetan life and history. Above all, she is a...
Read MoreCensoring the News Before It Happens
At The New York Review of Books, Perry Link discusses CDT’s ‘Directives from the Ministry of Truth’ series of leaked propaganda instructions: In the end […], none of the parts of [CDT founder and...
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