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Crazy Li Goes to Court

A new round of divorce hearings between Li Yang, the founder of a controversial and high-decibel English education program, and Kim Lee, his battered American wife, began last week. Last year, Lee posted pictures of the injuries...

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Tweets From the Plateau

A few days after police took violent measures to clear the site of the two most recent Tibetan self-immolations in an ongoing trend of protest against Chinese rule, The Economist profiles the prominent Tibetan digital dissident...

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Will Wang Yang Have The Last Laugh?

Reuters’ Chris Buckley reports that victims of the “Strike Black” campaign that lay at the heart of Bo Xilai’s “Chongqing Model” will likely demand a reversal of their convictions, a...

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Double Jeopardy: China’s Fake Prisoners

At Slate, Geoffrey Sant describes the practice—”not common, but not rare either”, according to one police officer—of 顶罪 ding zui: hiring a body double to stand trial and serve a criminal sentence in one’s...

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Date Reported for Heywood Murder Trial

Gu Kailai’s trial for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood is to start on August 9th, according to a friend of her family. From CNN’s Stephen Jiang and Jaime FlorCruz: The trial of Gu Kailai, the wife of...

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