Xi Jinping: A First-Year Report Card
In a Xi Jinping “First Year Top Ten” list following the Communist Party’s Third...
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Who Are the Winners in the Bo Xilai Case?
Following the announcement of Bo Xilai’s life sentence in court on Sunday, Simon Denyer...
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Liu Tienan Expelled from Party
The latest target in President Xi Jinping’s declared war on corruption is Liu Tienan, former...
Read MoreRemembering “That Year,” 24 Years Later
Twenty-four years after army troops rolled into the streets of Beijing and opened fire on protesters, the government is still working to erase the history of 1989, while activists are struggling to keep memories alive. In the...
Read MoreBo Said to Be Uncooperative as Trial Delay Lengthens
With the former flood of news about fallen Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai slowing to a trickle, rumors have rushed in to fill the gap, even in China’s own state media. According to some of the more recent mutterings,...
Read MoreZhao Ziyang Remembered; Tiananmen General Dies
Zhao Ziyang, former Party general secretary and national premier who opposed the use of force against Tiananmen protesters in 1989, was honored by visitors to his former home in Beijing on Thursday, the 8th anniversary of his...
Read MoreAt 79, Ex-Party Official Lambastes Chinese Leaders
On NPR, Louisa Lim interviews Bao Tong, former aide to former CCP General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, about the current state of the Communist Party and the new generation of leadership who is slated to take power early next year:...
Read MoreJesus vs. Mao? An Interview With Yuan Zhiming (Updated)
In the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson continues his series of interviews with prominent Chinese thinkers by talking with Yuan Zhiming, a former pro-democracy activist turned Christian preacher. Exiled after the 1989...
Read MoreYu Jie On His New Biography of Liu Xiaobo
For the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson continues his series of interviews with influential Chinese intellectuals and dissidents by talking with writer Yu Jie, whose biography of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu...
Read MoreChen Guangcheng: “They Are Scared of the Countryside”
Ian Johnson interviews dissident Chen Guangcheng in a New York University classroom. Continuing the transcript style of his Bao Tong interview, Johnson asks Chen many probing questions, from China’s incoming leadership to...
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