The Ministry of Truth (or Minitrue, in Newspeak) is one of the four ministries that govern Oceania in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the Chinese blogosphere, it is the online lingo for the Central...
Read MoreGlobal Times published a lengthy and largely sympathetic article looking at the legal charges against Xu Zhiyong’s Gongmeng (Open Constitution Initiative) group and the plight of NGOs in China today: What happened to the...
Read MoreChinese censors are busy these days, chasing news from Africa linked to the son of the president, or voices protesting imprisoned rights scholars, lawyers, and activists. Now they have set their eyes on the following text,...
Read MoreThe New York Times looks at the impact of Xu Zhiyong’s arrest for the rights movement in China, especially as it comes on the heels of a broader crackdown on lawyers who defend civil rights and NGOs: Although rights...
Read More“The alleged instigator of the Uighur riots doesn’t talk like a terrorist. Demonizing her may backfire on Beijing.” From the Wall Street Journal: Rebiya Kadeer is undergoing a Chinese version of George Orwell’s “Two...
Read MoreThe following article was published by the Hong Kong-based Ta Kung Pao, translated by CDT. The Information Office of the State Council recently issued a notice requiring all domestic news websites to implement a real-name...
Read MoreWhile civil rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong is being held for tax evasion, he is featured in the August issue of the Beijing publication Mr. Fashion 《时尚先生》(the Chinese version of Esquire).* The theme of this issue is “Chinese...
Read MoreThe New York Times’ former Shanghai bureau chief Howard French is visiting Shanghai and writes a commentary on what China could learn from the painful history of race relations in the U.S.: This is the second year in a row...
Read MoreIsabel Hilton writes on The Daily Beast that the recent unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang marks an empire in crisis: There is a story that the Chinese government likes to tell: that China is the world’s oldest continuous, unchanging...
Read MoreThe Guardian hosts a debate over the concept of “Chineseness” and the influence of the West. Martin Jacques begins: Let me give a number of examples of how China is and will remain different. Although for the last...
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