The Los Angeles Times looks at the challenges facing Chinese citizens who are waging independent campaigns, largely through social media, to get elected to local people’s congress positions: The positions of people’s...
Read MoreThe wave of independent candidates has suffered various setbacks in their campaign to win local political office. But the movement has just gotten some new blood in Beijing–a celebrity. Cheng Yuting, born in 1988, is a...
Read MoreIn the past two months, over 100 independent candidates announced their candidacy for seats at the local-level People’s Congress and have used micro-blogging and social media sites to gain support. Li Chengpeng, for instance,...
Read MoreOn the eve of the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, a nostalgia for red songs is sweeping China, according to this New York Times article: China has boomed during three decades of economic reform, and has in many...
Read MoreThe death of the young son of migrant workers highlights an alarming trend of child abuse in China. Radio Free Asia reports: The death of a two-and-a-half-year-old son of migrant workers at a kindergarten in the eastern Chinese...
Read MoreBlogger Persian Xiaozhao wrote the following post after she was “invited to tea” by state security agents in Shanghai on Feb. 5, 2009 and questioned about her signing of Charter 08 and her interview with the...
Read MoreBeijing is clean, safe and less populated these days. And Chinese authorities are certainly serious about security of the Olympics. The following information in Chinese blogosphere may give us a clue on how this is being done,...
Read MoreAnita Chang reports in AP, via kansascity.com: From the desktop computer at the foot of his bed, Zhang Heng dares to complain about the Beijing Olympics. The 24-year-old blogger tells of having to sign a “civilized...
Read MoreThe following “Sci-Fi” short story has been (re)posted in many Chinese online forums and blogs, originally from SCI-FI Great Wall blog, translated by CDT’s Linjun Fan. July is the hottest month of the year in...
Read MoreChinese reporter Guan Jun has written a story about how the city of Benxi spent tens of millions of yuan and harassed local residents in an effort to welcome the Olympic Torch, only to find out that the relay route had been...
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