As income inequality in China grows increasingly urgent, James Palmer examines another divide in Chinese society less frequently scrutinized in the West: the generation gap between young Chinese and their parents, which one...
Read MoreWhile some Christian missionaries in China aim to fill spaces left by the suppression of traditional values and decline of Maoism, others work to convert members of already beleaguered minority cultures such as Tibetan Buddhism....
Read MoreAt Bloomberg Businessweek, Vernon Silver describes the unraveling of encrypted blacklists used to monitor instant messages in the Chinese version of Skype, which is produced as a joint venture between Microsoft and Chinese...
Read MoreFrom the Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions from the archives of the CDT series Directives from the Ministry of Truth (真理部指令). Central Gannan [Tibetan Autonomous] Prefectural Committee...
Read MoreAs delegates to the National People’s Congress confront the issue of pollution following Beijing’s winter “airpocolypse,” Yanzhong Huang of the Council on Foreign Relations weighs the health consequences...
Read MoreOn her A Big Enough Forest blog, Liz Carter has translated an essay by social critic Li Chengpeng on the recent kidnapping-turned-murder of baby Xu Haobo. In the essay, Li also refers to the toddler who suffered multiple...
Read MoreGuangdong Propaganda Department: On March 6, a conflict arose with a female peddler while Chigang Road, Haizhu District [Guangzhou] chengguan law enforcement officers on Guangzhou Avenue. The relevant departments in Haizhu are...
Read MoreA recently released study by U.S.-based computer scientists surveys censorship on the popular Chinese social networking platform Sina Weibo. A summary of the study by MIT Technology Review explains the methodology used to...
Read MoreAs National People’s Congress delegates meet in Beijing, and Xi Jinping officially takes over as state president, China’s leaders are confronting a number of urgent issues facing the nation, including the degradation...
Read MoreFrom the Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions from the archives of the CDT series Directives from the Ministry of Truth (真理部指令). Internet Information Office, Central Propaganda Department:...
Read MoreRumors circulated on Weibo this week about an attack by one or more Uyghurs on Han Chinese in Korla, Xinjiang. Local police have now confirmed an attack but few details are available, Radio Free Asia reports (See Update below):...
Read MoreFor the latest installment in his CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab of Hexie Farm returns to a favorite subject, Grimm’s fairy tales, to comment on Chinese politics. In this drawing, the seven wizards (an allusion to the...
Read MoreA U.S. federal judge has sentenced former consulate security guard Bryan Underwood to nine years in prison for attempting to sell information and photographs to China’s Ministry of State Security, according to The...
Read MoreWhile both sides may be moving to ease tensions in the disputed Diaoyu Islands, Reuters reports that the Chinese navy continues to send ships to the area in an attempt to overwhelm the inferior Japanese forces tasked with...
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