As of May 19, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). Intertwined Injustices in Fujian: On June 24, 2001, a bomb exploded at the Fuqing City Discipline Inspection...
Read MoreWriter Murong Xuecun has spoken out against government censorship since his various weibo accounts were deleted by authorities. In a recent piece published in the Guardian, he condemned the “new censorship campaign.”...
Read MoreWenzhou businesswoman Lin Haiyan was sentenced to death last week for illegal fundraising, highlighting China’s use of capital punishment for non-violent crimes. From Dinny McMahon at The Wall Street Journal: According to...
Read MoreAt Bloomberg View, Pankaj Mishra examines China’s challenge to the advance of liberal democracy and its relationship with economic growth. “Development is the only hard truth,” Deng claimed. “If we do not develop, then we...
Read MoreFollowing a report from Mandiant about a Chinese hacker group allegedly linked to the People’s Liberation Army, the Obama administration condemned officially-sanctioned Chinese cyberattacks. Yet, following a three-month...
Read MoreThe New Yorker’s Beijing correspondent Evan Osnos, who recently published on the pertinence of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby to a modern Chinese audience, spoke with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer. In the...
Read MoreThe following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Guangdong Propaganda Department: On the morning of May 17, a Huanan Agricultural University PhD...
Read MoreChina’s new ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai, gave an exclusive interview to Foreign Affairs managing editor Jonathan Tepperman on his vision for China-U.S. relations, touching on topics of cybersecurity and...
Read MoreAt The Guardian, Jonathan Kaiman reports the approval by Chinese environmental officials of a proposed 314-meter-tall dam despite fears about its effects on the ecology of Sichuan’s Dadu River, an indirect tributary of the...
Read MoreThe East by Southeast blog has posted a detailed account of Thursday’s protests in Kunming over the planned PetroChina oil refinery and reported paraxylene (PX) plant. The account describes how the protests switched focus...
Read MoreFour more deaths have brought the total number of fatalities from the H7N9 bird flu to 36. Yet despite these deaths, there is evidence that the virus is not spreading as fast or as widely as many feared. From Al Jazeera: The...
Read MoreChinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin (天注定) screened today at the Cannes Film Festival, where it is being considered for the “Golden Palm,” the prestigious festival’s highest prize. Today’s...
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