An essay published by Caixin magazine describes the cases of two persecuted scholars, with thinly veiled allusion to contemporary China. Both men were imprisoned, accused of insanity and finally executed. Emperor...
Read MoreThe Chinese government, through its official media, has put limits on moves by activists and others who have declared their independent candidacies for local elections, though it may not yet signal an end to the movement. From...
Read MoreA Chinese blog called Love Ai Weiwei has posted translations of a series of tweets posted by Ai Weiwei between June 2009 and July 2010: 艾未未微博选登（2009.6—2010.7）Ai Weiwei（ @aiww ） Tweet Quotes 1 （June 2009—July 2010）1....
Read MoreChina Media Project has translated an open letter by legal scholar He Weifang which expresses concern at the erosion of rule of law by Chongqing’s “Strike Black” crime crackdown. For more than a year now,...
Read MoreFang Binxing (方滨兴), president of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and the “Father of the Great Firewall,” exhorts a 2011 graduating class to assist China in stability preservation...
Read MoreLi Tiantian is a lawyer in Shanghai, who disappeared after being arrested over a month ago. She wrote this on her blog about a previous run-in with Domestic Security Department agents on February 15, 2011, in which she was...
Read MoreFrom the ESWN blog: Hu Xijin’s Microblog (2011/2/27) Hu Xijin is the chief editor of the Chinese newspaper . He recently opened a Sina.com Weibo account under his real name Hu Xijin. He quickly got more than 13,000...
Read MoreThe Siweiluozi blog translated a microblog post by journalist Cheng Yizhong, which has since been harmonized: China’s great, as long as you understand, adapt to, and make good use of the implicit rules here. And as long as you...
Read MoreAs CDT readers are well aware, Chinese propaganda authorities frequently issue directives of news and events that cannot be reported or highlighted by Internet sites and traditional media. (CDT compiles such orders in our...
Read MoreBeijing authorities have announced a variety of measures for managing the city’s expanding population, in accordance with the 12th Five-Year Plan. In addition to limiting the influx of migrants which has driven the...
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