A Coal Miner’s Dilemma Mirrors China’s
The world’s largest consumer of coal, China accounts for approximately half of world...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Mar 6, 2014
The world’s largest consumer of coal, China accounts for approximately half of world...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Jan 2, 2014
A massive police raid in Boshe Village in Lufeng City, Guangdong uncovered three tons of...
Read MorePosted by Anne Henochowicz | Jul 23, 2013
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and bloggers often refer to these instructions as “Directives from the Ministry...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Mar 31, 2013
In nearly 9,000 words at The Globe and Mail, Mark MacKinnon recounts his recent 22-day train journey around China, loosely following the course of Mao’s Long March. He met officials and protesters, nailhouse residents and...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Mar 26, 2013
At The Wall Street Journal, Bob Davis describes how prestige and security are driving fresh graduates towards jobs in government or state-owned enterprises, rather than private companies or entrepreneurship: Over the past...
Read MorePosted by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 28, 2012
While the world bites its nails over China’s military growth, China itself has more internal...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Qian | Jun 12, 2012
At The Los Angeles Times, Steven Zeitchik and Jonathan Landreth explore the American film industry’s expanding relationship with the Chinese audience and government. On one hand, this has boosted the frequency and favourability...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | May 1, 2012
Hu Jia, an activist who was detained for over 24 hours after meeting with the escaped Chen Guangcheng last week, has said that police admitted during his questioning that Chen and his supporters had done nothing wrong in the...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Dec 21, 2011
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman told reporters that Christian Bale, not China, should be embarrassed by his confrontation with guards outside the Shandong village of Dongshigu last week. Bale was attempting to visit legal...
Read MorePosted by Scott Greene | Dec 13, 2011
A man held by police for allegedly participating in land grab protests in rural Guangdong province died on Monday after several days in custody. From Reuters: The man died as riot police moved to quell a longstanding dispute in...
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