Following the release a week ago of an open letter to Xi Jinping, Liu Xia is preparing to launch a court challenge to authorities’ treatment of herself, her brother, and her husband, 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu...
Read MoreCorruption surrounding China’s college entrance exam (gaokao)—the world’s largest standardized test—has long been noted, and every year schemes to cheat on this future-determining rite of passage become widely...
Read MoreWhile China’s wealth gap has become an increasingly hot topic, Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen suggests that China’s achievements on inequality have far surpassed India’s, leaving the latter at a...
Read MoreSpeculation has mounted this week that NSA leaker Edward Snowden might leave Hong Kong for Iceland, removing a small but buzzing fly from the ointment of Sino-U.S. relations and possibly defusing accusations of spying for China....
Read MoreThis year at the biannual Italian art festival, the Venice Biennale, the audience will see the clash between two faces of contemporary Chinese art: one approved and sponsored by Chinese government and the other led by the famous...
Read MoreThe rift over exiled legal activist Chen Guangcheng’s departure from New York University is deepening, with both defenders and detractors of his claims that NYU kicked him out for political reasons continuing to speak out....
Read MoreAs of June 21, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). Jilted Lover Strikes Back: Fan Yue resigned his post as the deputy director of the State Archives Bureau...
Read MoreThe Guardian reports that Xinjiang courts have sentenced 11 ethnic Uyghurs to a range of prison sentences on religious extremism charges: Eight of those convicted came from the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, the Justice...
Read MoreSince 2008, Tibetan writer, activist, and blogger Woeser has repeatedly found herself (along with her husband Wang Lixiong) under house arrest. According to a post published yesterday on her Chinese-language blog, Wang and...
Read MoreMaura Cunningham reviews Barnaby Martin’s Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Wei Wei for the Times Literary Supplement. The book is based on a series of interviews with the artist about his detention in 2011, conducted before...
Read MoreAfter the launch of the Shenzhou 10 on June 11 and the spacecraft’s successful docking with the experimental Tiangong-1 space station/laboratory module two days later, China’s second female astronaut in space Wang...
Read MoreCorrection: The first directive originally mentioned “Snowden’s betrayal of the CIA.” “CIA” has been changed to “NSA.” The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by...
Read MoreWhen something disappears from the Internet in China, netizens joke that it has been “river-crabbed,” a play on the euphemism “harmonized.” The River Crab Archive is a collection of blog post titles, weibo, and other materials...
Read MoreDan Levin and Amy Chin of The New York Times report that Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption efforts have left a number of government officials prone to extortion schemes: Now, in addition to looking over their shoulders for...
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