The verdict in Gu Kailai’s trial for the murder of Neil Heywood is to be announced on Monday, according to Reuters: “The verdicts for Gu Kailai and Zhang Xiaojun will be announced at 9 a.m. on Monday,” an...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreA 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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Editor’s Note: The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a...
Read MoreReuters’ 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...
Read MoreBo Xilai’s wife Gu Kailai and family aide Zhang Xiaojun stood trial for the murder of Neil Heywood on Thursday. The proceedings lasted only seven hours, and no verdict or sentence has yet been announced. From John Ruwitch...
Read MoreAt 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...
Read MoreGu 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...
Read MoreAFP reports quiet in Qidong amid a heavy police presence following Saturday’s violent protests against a planned pipeline. “People don’t dare to go out in the streets today,” said a local resident, who...
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Eight pages of reporting on the Beijing flood were pulled from today’s edition of Southern Weekend...
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