A year after land grab protests began in the Guangdong fishing village of Wukan, and just six months after electing a new village committee in what many hailed as a new approach to dealing with social unrest in China, about 100...
Read MoreThe following dispatch was sent to CDT by an American who was visiting Shanghai during the recent anti-Japan protests: Shanghai, September 18, 2012 – by Jane Wang On 9-18 （九一八), the anniversary of the Mukden Incident, I...
Read MoreTea Leaf Nation’s Yueran Zhang explores the shifting winds in the Chinese news media, where a number of “personnel earthquakes” have seen influential members of the country’s independent media leave or be...
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A multimedia, cinematic exhibit exploring Tiananmen and its aftermath opens at London’s Hundred...
Read MoreChinese authorities are investigating a Tuesday incident in which a group of protesters harassed U.S. ambassador Gary Lockein his car outside the U.S. embassy. From Bloomberg Businessweek: State Department spokeswoman Victoria...
Read MoreXinhua has published a detailed nine-page account of Wang Lijun’s trial, held in Chengdu on Monday and Tuesday this week, for defection, abuse of power, corruption and “bending the law for selfish means”....
Read MoreAs the Obama administration takes to the W.T.O ahead of the presidential election, political analysts Richard Wike and Bruce Stokes discuss the gulf between expert and public views of China from the U.S., based on recent Pew...
Read MoreIn a guest post on Nicholas Kristof’s New York Times blog, Han-Yi Shaw, a research fellow at Taipei’s National Chengchi University, argues that Japanese historical documents support China’s claim to the Diaoyu...
Read MoreAt China File, Kathleen McLaughlin describes China’s women-led mosques which, having weathered varying fortunes since the 17th Century, are now struggling to compete with the growing range of opportunities for young Hui...
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As anti-Japan protests rage on, outside observers have started to ask why the Chinese authorities...
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Editor’s Note: The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a...
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As of September 19, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the...
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The following example of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by...
Read MoreA survey of articles in Global Times’ International Forum editorial section, conducted by Allen Carlson and Jason Oaks at Cornell University’s Government Department, suggests that the newspaper’s reputation for...
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