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Q&A: How do Ordinary Japanese View China?

Posted by Josh Rudolph | Jul 26, 2016

With historically tense relations between China and Japan on high display in recent years amid...

Chaos of Cultural Revolution Echoes 50 Years Later

Posted by Grace | Apr 4, 2016

This May marks the 50th anniversary of the start of China’s Great Proletarian Cultural...

Sinopec President Investigated for Corruption

Posted by Grace | Apr 27, 2015

On Monday, China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced in an online...

TV Host Replaced On Air for Criticizing Local Corruption

Posted by Josh Rudolph | Apr 10, 2014

The Wall Street Journal reports that the host of an online news program was recently cut off while...

Netizen Voices: New Agency Muffles Chinese Press

Posted by Anne Henochowicz | Apr 17, 2013

Weibo and other social media have allowed journalists to skirt press censorship, posting information about the Wenzhou train crash, the Southern Weekly protest, and other major events on their personal accounts. Media...

Meet the Grandfather of Chinese Rock

Posted by Sophie Beach | Jan 3, 2013

Vice 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...

Pussy Riot, Rock and Roll and China

Posted by Scott Greene | Aug 27, 2012

For The International Herald Tribune’s Rendezvous blog, Mark McDonald explores the world of Chinese rock music in light of the Pussy Riot verdict in Russia: The case has some echoes in China, which tolerates little...

Rock in China: An Insider’s Journey

Posted by Josh Rudolph | Jul 20, 2012

Over the past 30 years, many a foreigner has headed into the middle kingdom to find fortune in the brisk economy of a rapidly changing nation. When Jonathan Campbell went to China over a decade ago, he was searching for the...

Rock n' Roll With Chinese Characteristics

Posted by Josh Rudolph | Oct 21, 2011

Canadian drummer Jonathan Campbell has been living in China for the past 10 years. During this time, he has gotten well acquainted with China’s rock music scene, and done his part to promote China’s burgeoning music...

Podcast: New Sounds of China

Posted by Samuel Wade | Mar 10, 2011

London Chinese Radio’s New Sounds of China music podcast has reached the end of its second season, hosted by music journalist and musicologist Paul Kendall and guitarist, vocalist and Beijing opera performer Hu Pan. Each...