UPDATE (March 16): The Economist has an eyewitness account from their correspondent in Lhasa: After hours of rioting on March 14th, a ring of troops was deployed around the large Tibetan quarter during the night. The next day...
Read MoreFrom overseas website Boxun News, translated by CDT: Only a few months into the new year, and just after the Lantern Festival, petitioners from all over the country and provincial police officers have gathered en mass around...
Read MoreFrom Shanghai-based blogger Chow, translated by CDT: The riot scenes on the evening news attracted my attention. But the news only had those one-sided words from the government. I came back home in the night, got online and...
Read MoreIn the U.S. State Department’s recently released human rights report, China was no longer included among the top ten worst offenders. The New York Times’ Helene Cooper reports that the annual report did say that...
Read MoreSpeculation continues to swirl around the fate of Chinese YouTube copycat Tudou, which continues to function despite reportedly being slapped with a shut down order by the State Authority for Radio, Film and Television (SARFT;...
Read MoreFrom BBC News : In modern Tibet, the ancient sits alongside the new. Peter Firstbrook, producer of a new BBC Four series, explores how Tibet’s past is influencing the future of its people. The bride sits next to the groom,...
Read MoreA new report, Tracking the Steel Dragon: How China’s economic policies and the railroad are transforming Tibet, from the International Campaign for Tibet has focused attention on the impact of the Qinghai-Tibet railway on...
Read MoreAccording to scholars, the oral tradition of satiric “shunkouliu” or “slippery jingles”, which are often political in nature, can be traced back all the way to the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). While state-controlled media is still...
Read MoreIn Prospect Magazine, Mark Leonard, executive director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, writes a lengthy article about China’s “ideas and who produces them”: We are used to China’s growing...
Read MoreSee the aftermath of Steven Spielberg’s Olympic decision, from Time’s China Blog: The Steven Spielberg affair rolls on. He announced in mid-February that –because of China’s lack of action in stopping the...
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