After over a dozen people, including one nun, set themselves on fire in the past year in order to protest Beijing’s strict control over ethnically Tibetan areas, two more Tibetans have set themselves alight in Sichuan. One...
Read MoreChinese television broadcasters have implemented deep cuts to their lineup of prime-time entertainment programming, reducing the number of such shows from 126 to 38 in order to comply with tough new government restrictions that...
Read MoreSuperstar blogger and race car driver Han Han has written three essays on the topics of freedom, democracy and revolution, which have stirred up debate in Chinese cyberspace. The New York Times blog explains: While urging the...
Read MoreJapan and China announced a package of financial agreements during new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s visit to Beijing late last week, pacts that will ultimately give the yuan a greater role as an international...
Read MoreAt Caixin online, Nailene Chou Wiest suggests that China is running an “intellectual trade deficit” with the United States, to the detriment of both. In 1979, a group of Chinese editors was about to visit the United...
Read MoreThe office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville, issued a statement on Tuesday expressing concern at the sudden revocation of missing lawyer Gao Zhisheng’s probation, and at proposed revisions to...
Read MoreVillagers removed protest banners in Wukan on Wednesday after officials agreed to concessions, including the release of three people detained for their alleged role in violent demonstrations against land-grabs, which bring an...
Read MoreXinhua announced the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in a two-sentence dispatch: Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), passed away last Saturday at the age of 69 “from...
Read MoreVillagers in Wukan snubbed the request of local Communist Party officials to discuss a possible resolution to the standoff on Sunday, as they continue to await the release of Xue Jinbo’s body and a satisfactory conclusion...
Read MoreBooks & Letters reviews two recent books that look at advances in and challenges of investigative journalism in China: Investigative Journalism in China by David Bandurski (of China Media Project fame) and Martin Hala, and...
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