Interview with Dr. Gyal Lo: Tibetan Children Are Becoming “Strangers in Their Own Homes”
In 2021, Tibet Action Institute (TAI) published a groundbreaking report exposing the extensive use...
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“Reverse Runology?” Some Émigrés Reconsider Their Escape from China
The struggle for a better life has long pushed many Chinese citizens to escape difficult conditions at home. In the most recent waves of emigration, tens of thousands of Chinese migrants have made perilous journeys through...
Read MoreCensorship and Propaganda Fuel Anti-Japanese Nationalism During China’s War Anniversaries
Last month, a Chinese man attacked a Japanese woman and her child in a subway station in Suzhou, sending her to the hospital for treatment. Media reports about the attack were censored on WeChat. The Japanese government called...
Read MoreAll-China Journalists Association Criticized for “Showing Courage Only When There Is No Risk”
Knowing when and what to critique is a delicate matter for Chinese journalists. Party censorship constrains journalistic zeal, forcing journalists and media outlets to navigate red lines at their own peril. Many try to find...
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Translations: Train Incident Becomes Metaphor for Principled Disobedience – “Smash That Window, and Take a Breath of Freedom!”
A man who used an onboard emergency hammer to smash a hole in the window of a stalled train to...
Read MoreChina Resigned to Quiet Diplomacy After U.S. and Israeli Strikes on Iran
A fragile ceasefire appears to have paused 12 days of war between Israel and Iran, which has killed at least 28 people in Israel and at least 1,054 people in Iran. As the dust settles, observers have scrutinized not only the...
Read MoreThe Chengdu Overpass Protest and Its Antecedents: “The People Do Not Want a Political Party With Unchecked Power”
In the early hours of the morning of April 15, 2025, a lone protester lashed three long white banners with red, hand-painted political slogans to the railings of a pedestrian overpass near a bus station in Chengdu, and unfurled...
Read MoreTranslations: Tiananmen’s Long Shadow Falls on Tributes to Hu Dehua and His Father, Hu Yaobang
Hu Dehua, the third son of former General Secretary Hu Yaobang, died in Beijing on March 30. The anniversary of his father’s death in 1989, which sparked the protests crushed by the June 4 crackdown, is April 15. That...
Read MoreTranslations: China’s “Officialdom Complex”—Cures and Effects
While the CCP swept away many remnants of China’s imperial past, one prominent feature has endured: the existence of an elevated official class, to which fiercely contested examinations offer an entryway. A pair of recent essays...
Read MoreTranslation: Is Punishing Workers With Literal Suspension About Safety, or Power?
A photo showing three construction workers suspended from a gateway in their safety harnesses has sparked discussion online over the use of Cultural Revolution-style humiliation, workplace discipline versus personal dignity, the...
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