From 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). QuanzhouNet: Provincial Propaganda Notice Carry only domestic...
Read MoreFollowing reports, which were later removed from official news websites, that the re-education through labor (laojiao) system would be reformed, officials have now made the “most authoritative” statement yet about...
Read MoreAs trade between China and North Korea increases despite tensions over North Korea’s satellite launch, China is calling for the United Nations Security Council to ‘react calmly’ over North Korea’s recent...
Read MoreChinese state media reports the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) unveiled a plan that would boost civil aircraft manufacturing. This comes amid China’s attempts to build jet engines for both commercial and...
Read MoreThe latest casualty of a shifting tide against official power and privilege is Yi Junqing, director of the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau, who recently lost his job over “lifestyle issues.” These issues...
Read MoreChinese authorities’ attitude toward video games has been mixed, with large industry subsidies on one hand and wariness of moral corrosion on the other. At the same time, The Telegraph’s Malcolm Moore reports, the...
Read MoreThe Associated Press reported on Tuesday that the lawyers defending disgraced former Chongqing Communist Party chief Bo Xilai, who faces criminal charges, hail from a firm that has close ties to the Party. From the South China...
Read MoreThe Globe and Mail’s Mark MacKinnon checks in from Chongqing, where he sees evidence of China’s large and growing wealth gap: Chongqing, a vibrant Yangtze River metropolis, has found itself at the centre of the...
Read MoreChinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group is planning to expand its entertainment business into the United States, but boss Wang Jianlin’s ambitions of a share in mainstream Hollywood productions are not developing smoothly....
Read MoreAt The Economist’s Analects blog, Alec Ash discusses ON / OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice. The exhibition at Beijing’s Ullens Center includes the Foxconn-focused Consumption by Li Liao, who was...
Read MoreFor his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab depicts Xi Jinping as the belabored Sisyphus from Greek legend, who was punished for his hubris by repeatedly trying in vain to push a boulder up a...
Read MoreLiao Yiwu spent the early 1990s in prison for writing the poem Massacre, about the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. His account of these four years will be published in English this summer as For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A...
Read MoreU.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton stood with Japan’s Foreign Minister on Friday and said that America opposed “any unilateral actions that would seek to undermine Japanese administration” of the Diaoyu...
Read MoreCaixin’s Xie Haitao profiles Shandong gutter oil tycoon Liu Liguo, who stood trial last month. It’s oil with an extra something, but there’s nothing virgin-like about it. Pumped from sewers outside of...
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