The 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...
Read MoreXi Jinping on Tuesday announced a “thorough cleanup” of the Communist Party, according to Xinhua News, warning conference attendees in Beijing about the need to stamp out dangerous elements from the party’s...
Read MoreIn an article for the New York Times, Adam Davidson looks at two U.S. paintbrush makers and the strategies they’ve used to stay competitive as Chinese manufacturers offer products for a considerably lower price:...
Read MoreFormer party secretary of Chongqing’s Beibei district Lei Zhengfu was removed from office after anti-corruption blogger Zhu Ruifeng leaked a sex-tape of the official and a young woman late last year which quickly went...
Read MoreAfter record-breaking levels of air pollution in Beijing added to the mounting environmental concerns that often erupt in public protest (recently exemplified by PX demonstrations in Kunming and a swiftly quashed rally in...
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