With the detention of four activists in Beijing for publicly expressing support for official financial disclosure, The New York Times’ Andrew Jacobs reports that new president Xi Jinping’s push to curb corruption...
Read MoreThis week’s edition of The Economist features an epic special report by Gady Epstein on social, political, commercial, technical and international aspects of China’s Internet. From his introduction: THIRTEEN YEARS...
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 MoreDavid Bandurski rounds up journalists’ tributes to Southern Weekly’s former “news examiner” Zeng Li, whose blogging played an important role in January’s uproar over heavy-handed censorship by...
Read MoreJohn Garnaut describes a conflict-defusing military hotline between Washington and Beijing that is currently in testing, quoting military and political analysts on the likely “flashpoints” that could lead to...
Read MoreChina’s 12th Five Year Plan (2011-2015) has identified infrastructure development as essential for maintaining economic growth, and under it local governments will be footing the bill for airport renovations, expansions...
Read MoreZhao Xiyong, the Shenyang man who had been posing as a departmental head at the State Council Research Office on various “official” trips since 2010, was declared an impostor by provincial and central authorities and...
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 MoreAuthorities in Beijing have detained at least three activists who held up banners in a public square demanding that top government officials publicly declare their family assets, according to one of the detainees’ lawyers....
Read MoreThe death of a 38-year-old chef in Zhejiang from a new strain of bird flu has brought the number of reported fatalities to three, following news on Sunday of two earlier deaths in Shanghai. Ten H7N9 cases have now been...
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal’s Melissa Korn reports that specialized master’s degree programs in the United States have “found tremendous popularity” from Chinese nationals in recent years: Companies in...
Read MoreIn Beijing, levels of two key air pollutants in the first three months of this year had increased by nearly 30% compared with the same period in 2012, according to a Chinese media report which cited a local government official....
Read MoreEvan Osnos suggests that North Korea’s blustery Soviet-style propaganda has grown hopelessly outdated, and may even end up forcing its hand. Pyongyang should modernize its rhetoric, he argues, as China has. From The New...
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