Losing Sleep Over Choice of Schools
For the New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow reports on a dilemma facing many globalized Chinese parents: For many cosmopolitan Chinese parents, the agonized deliberations look like this: How Chinese should our child’s education...
Read More‘Sex-Tape Official’ Lei Zhengfu Sentenced to Jail
After his trial began last week, Lei Zhengfu, the former party secretary of Chongqing’s Beibei district who was removed from office after a sex-tape leaked and went viral, has been sentenced to hefty fines and 13 years in...
Read MoreHexie Farm (蟹农场)：The Unsinkable
For his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab shifts his focus to recent economic news, and asks whether an economic crisis will sink the “Chinese Dream.” The captain of the ship...
Read MoreIs Xi Jinping’s Fight Against Corruption For Real?
At a Politburo “group learning activity” on Tuesday, Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of adherence to socialism with Chinese characteristics, urging Party members to learn from history and serve the people....
Read MoreShenzhou X Completes Successful Docking Mission
China’s Shenzhou 10 spacecraft successfully touched down in Inner Mongolia on Wednesday, completing a 15-day docking mission with China’s first space station. From Reuters: The Shenzhou 10 spacecraft, China’s...
Read MoreDeath Toll Rises to 35 in Xinjiang Violence
The death toll from riots in Xinjiang on Wednesday morning has risen to 35, according to Xinhua News, which called the incident a “violent terrorist attack:” The attack occurred at 5:50 a.m. Wednesday in Lukqun...
Read MoreMaking Rural China Urban
China researcher Mi Shih offers her insight on the new approach to rural development launched by the new regime in 2012, called chengzhenhua, or literally “city- and town-ification”. From The China Story: Chinese...
Read MoreAirline Headphones Allegedly Made With Prison Labor
Former prisoners claim that they were forced to make headphones for airlines including Qantas, British Airways and Emirates while serving sentences at a prison in Guangdong, reports AFP: Two inmates recently released from the...
Read MoreScientists Warn of Possible H7N9 Rebound
The H7N9 strain of bird flu appeared in China in February, claiming its first casualties in March. So far, there have been 130 recorded infections and 37 deaths. While anxiety over the spread of the virus is easing after recent...
Read MoreWhy There Isn’t a Chinese Fast Food Mega-Chain
As Chinese consumers devour more and more fast food (and begin to experience the correlated health impacts), and the multinational chains that cater to the growing appetite for processed convenience adjust their menus for the...
Read More“Urgent Notice” on Xinjiang Violence
Weibo user @公孙宇的世界 has posted this image of a notice from the Karamay Public Security Bureau concerning yesterday’s unrest in Turpan, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: The media have already been silenced on the Xinjiang...
Read MoreMinistry of Truth: Controversy Over New Zhejiang U. President
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and bloggers often refer to these instructions as “Directives from the Ministry...
Read MoreThe Government Versus the Weiborati
In light of the recent release of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Annual Report on Development of New Media in China, David Wertime at Tea Leaf Nation looks at how the report was received by the leadership and people:...
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