Grabs for Power Behind Plan to Shrink Elite Circle
With next week’s arrival of the long-awaited 18th Party Congress, which will decide China’s next generation of leaders, observers are trying to predict the final line-up, especially of the powerful Politburo Standing...
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Drawing the News: Sandy, Sparta and Beyond
This week, online cartoonists satirize CCTV coverage of Hurricane Sandy, “new” invasive security...
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Censorship Vault: Ai Weiwei’s Tax Donations
From the Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions from the...
Read MoreToys, Birds Harmonized Amid Beijing Security Crackdown
In addition to taxi cabs, Reuters reports that even the pigeons of Beijing must adhere to heightened restrictions as officials in the Chinese capital take no chances ahead of next week’s 18th Party Congress: Li Zhonghe,...
Read MoreHow Far Can The CCP Push Reform?
McClatchy Newspapers’ Tom Lasseter tells the story of a July 2010 uprising in the suburban Beijing village of Raolefu, where angry villagers disputed the shady re-election of a corrupt leader and where a court later...
Read MoreDon’t Write Off Mao Just Yet
While the foreign media has reported that the Chinese Communist Party may downplay Mao Zedong Thought at its upcoming 18th Party Congress, The Diplomat’s Mu Chunshan warns against reading too far into such speculation: To...
Read MoreChina’s Richest Man, “One Yuan at a Time”
Bloomberg Businessweek profiles Zong Qinghou, the chairman of Chinese beverage giant Wahaha, who has risen to become mainland China’s wealthiest man: Even in a country that has exploded in wealth and created a new economic...
Read MorePessimistic About Future, Chinese Look Abroad
Ian Johnson of The New York Times reports that political uncertainty and fear for their financial future, among other factors, is driving more and more Chinese professionals to emigrate abroad in search of a better life: As...
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Netizen Voices: Foreign Journalists in Ningbo
Most Chinese media kept silent on protests in the coastal city of Ningbo, where a planned...
Read MoreEscaping the Rat Race: An Emerging Counter-Culture
While the rise of consumerism in China continues to attract attention, Monica Tan turns to the backlash against it. From Tea Leaf Nation: It’s happened all over the world, and it’s happening in China too. As the country’s middle...
Read MoreRetracing Chen Guangcheng’s Escape
CNN’s Steven Jiang visited Chen Guangcheng’s home in Dongshigu, and described the first steps of the activist’s remarkable escape from house arrest in April: Jiang also shows the site where Batman star...
Read MoreAn Appreciation of Physicist Fang Lizhi
Physicist Fang Lizhi, who died in April, became most widely known for his year-long refuge in the American embassy in Beijing, beginning on June 5th, 1989. In China Quarterly and the Forum on International Physics Newsletter,...
Read MoreReport: China Should End One-Child Policy
The Wall Street Journal reports that a think tank connected to China’s State Council has published a report recommending that the country should phase out its one-child policy, first by allowing two children per family by...
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