Zhongnanhai Blog (via Global Voices) picks up a discussion on Quora.com regarding the term “Communist China”; specifically, whether it is accurate and appropriate or, in Kaiser Kuo’s words, “contentious,...
Read MoreIn New Weekly, He Shuqing asks what miseries and quandaries afflict China, and what hope casts a light of positivity on the new year.
Read MoreChina Digital Times has launched a participatory Web 2.0 initiative we are calling “Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon,” (“GMH Lexicon”) an online glossary of translations of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently...
Read MoreBecause his family members are under tight surveillance, no-one is available to collect Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize at the ceremony in Norway. As a result, the ceremony may be canceled all together. And even it is held,...
Read MoreEarlier this month, Tianjin hosted a U.N.-sponsored conference on climate change. As part of the conference, NGOs gathered to discuss related issues. China Dialogue interviews Lu Sicheng, an environmentalist who organized the...
Read MoreThe Chinese Law Prof Blog translates a blog post by Xu Zhiyong which announces that the case against his Open Constitution Initiative on tax evasion charges has been dropped: On Aug. 21, 2010, in the afternoon, the Beijing...
Read MoreMinxin Pei writes for The Diplomat: The ongoing labour unrest in China is seen by many as a labour market response to uncompetitive wages offered by foreign companies. And, to a large extent, this is true. Changing demographics...
Read MoreThe New York Times reports on the trial of Tibetan businessman Karma Samdrup, as part of a broader crackdown on prominent members of the Tibetan community since the riots in Lhasa in 2008: Exile groups and rights advocates say...
Read MoreChinaGeeks translates a pledge written by Xu Zhiyong, Teng Biao, Wang Gongquan, Li Xiongbing, Li Fangping, Xu Youyu, and Zhang Shihe, which is being circulated online. The drafters are asking people to sign it here: Whereas...
Read MoreFrom China Beat, notes from “a dialogue between Ian Johnson and Angilee Shah. Johnson, formerly of the Wall Street Journal, is author of Wild Grass: Three Portraits of Change in Modern China and A Mosque in Munich: Nazis,...
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