Netizen Voices: CCTV Storm and Drang
While China’s state-run CCTV covered Hurricane Sandy extensively, last week’s protests in...
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Transition On With Approval of Bo, Liu Expulsions
While eager observers will have to wait a little longer to find out who will make up the revamped Politburo Standing Committee, China’s much-anticipated leadership transition officially kicked off over the weekend as the...
Read MoreCDT Money: Credit Where Credit Is Due
A key measure of Chinese manufacturing activity edged into positive territory last week, as the official Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) rose from a September level of 49.8 to 50.2 for October. The expansionary figure represents...
Read MoreHexie Farm (蟹农场): Dang!
For his latest installment of the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab recreates the character “dang” (党), or party, which in China almost always refers to the Communist Party. The crown implies the...
Read MoreOnline Poll Favors Ending One-Child Policy
David Wertime at Tea Leaf Nation analyzes the recent online poll that shows overwhelming support for ending the one-child policy among China’s weibo users: The debate on China’s one-child policy has gone very public. A...
Read MoreChina also “Swept” by Hurricane Sandy
This week, as Hurricane Sandy swept the U.S. east coast, China’s state media have carried out intensive reports on the disaster, stirring up debate over the reasons and necessity of such massive coverage in China. Chinese media...
Read MoreUN Speaks Out on Tibet
As tensions mount in China with an upsurge in Tibetan self-immolations in recent weeks, a Tibetan artist has died after setting himself on fire protesting Chinese rule, from AP: The man set fire to himself Sunday morning in...
Read MoreIn China, Women Lag Behind Politically
While China was able to send its first woman to space, women have been experiencing a widening gender gap and facing more gender discrimination. CDT previously reported on the lack of women in China’s leadership. With the...
Read MoreLooking for Song Ze
Song Ze, a volunteer who worked with the dissident rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong’s Open Constitution Initiative to help provide humanitarian aid to petitioners, was detained and later switched to “residential...
Read MorePX Protests, Hollow Victories and Forced Demolitions
Last weekend, following an increasingly familiar pattern, protests in the coastal city of Ningbo won the promised suspension of a controversial paraxylene (PX) plant. At China Media Project, David Bandurski discussed the role of...
Read MoreChina Hastens End to Post-Execution Organ Harvesting
The practice of harvesting transplant organs from executed prisoners is one of China’s most infamous human rights violations. In March, vice health minister Huang Jiefu announced that it would soon be phased out in favour...
Read MoreCourt Rejects Lawsuit by Chen Guangcheng’s Brother
A Shandong court has rejected an attempt by Chen Guangcheng’s brother’s to sue local authorities for bursting into his home in the middle of the night to search for the missing activist. During the incident, Chen...
Read More“If I Have Some Accident, Bury Me Under a Tree”
In a translation posted at chinadialogue, Southern People Weekly’s Hai Pengfei reflects on last month’s trial of environmentalist Liu Futang for illegal publishing. Liu, a former official, had written and distributed...
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