The Guardian’s Tania Branigan interviews former Xinhua journalist Yang Jisheng, author of Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine. The book, researched in secret and still unpublished in mainland China, has nevertheless been...
Read MoreAt the South China Morning Post, Chow Chung-yan reviews The Fate of Zhuangzi in Modern China by Liu Jianmei, on the Taoist sage’s varying fortunes during the 20th Century. An English edition of the book, according to...
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Correction: Southern Weekend (南方周末) has adopted the English name Southern Weekly. This post has...
Read MoreCurrently traveling in China, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes that while authorities are quick to crack down on political speech online, it is not difficult to by drugs, guns or prostitutes via the Internet:...
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Correction: Southern Weekend (南方周末) has adopted the English name Southern Weekly. This post has...
Read MoreFollowing a surge in self-immolations in Tibetan areas in late 2012, authorities cracked down on access to news and information in the region. In recent weeks, the number of self-immolations seems to have slowed, or at least...
Read MoreVice Magazine has posted a lengthy interview with Cui Jian, often referred to as the “Grandfather of Chinese Rock n Roll.” Cui Jian was China’s first domestic rock star in the 1980s, and gained international...
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Read MoreChina’s Foreign Ministry said today that it is still considering the visa application of New York Times reporter Chris Buckley, an Australian and longtime China correspondent who had to leave the Mainland on Monday when...
Read MoreDavid Bandurski of the China Media Project translates a “New Year Greeting” from liberal-leaning political journal Yanhuang Chunqiu, titled “The Constitution is a Consensus for Political Reform,” which...
Read MoreHong Kong’s benchmark stock index soared in the exchange’s first session of the new year on Wednesday, hitting a 19-month high as investors welcomed news that U.S. lawmakers had passed a deal to avert the so-called...
Read MoreThe Diplomat’s J. Michael Cole writes that amid escalating tensions in the East China Sea and South China Sea, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has shifted nearly a dozen decommissioned warships to...
Read MoreAs more than 800,000 people gathered near Taipei 101 to watch the New Year’s Eve fireworks, a small group of university students called the AntiMedia Monster Youth Alliance (YAMM) protested purchases of Taiwan’s...
Read MoreBorder officials at airports in the U.S. and Canada are seizing large amounts of cash from incoming Chinese nationals, according to The Wall Street Journal: Officials at Canada’s two busiest airports—Toronto and...
Read MoreThe Hindu’s Ananth Krishnan examines Chinese reactions to a storm in India over the fatal gang-rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus. The incident and the protests in New Delhi in recent days have received wide attention in...
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