Wen Pushes Reform as Transition Draws Near
Giving the final National People’s Congress (NPC) news conference of his 10-year tenure before a leadership transition which is expected to begin later this year, Premier Wen Jiabao argued that China...
View ArticlePhotos: China’s Cultural and Economic Revolutions
At The New York Times’ Lens blog, Sim Chi Yin talks to Li Zhensheng, who worked as a photojournalist in Heilongjiang during the Cultural Revolution. Li describes how, after initially being caught up in...
View ArticleAn Appreciation of Physicist Fang Lizhi
Physicist Fang Lizhi, who died in April, became most widely known for his year-long refuge in the American embassy in Beijing, beginning on June 5th, 1989. In China Quarterly and the Forum on...
View ArticleCCTV Pre-Execution Spectacle Polarizes Viewers
Drug lord Naw Kham and three other foreigners were executed in Kunming on Friday for the 2011 killings of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River. State broadcaster CCTV aired the prisoners’ final...
View ArticlePolice Silence Visitors to Executed Dissident’s Grave
Monday marked the 45th anniversary of the execution of Lin Zhao, a dissident who wrote criticisms of the government in her own blood while in prison. Despite her official rehabilitation in 1981,...
View ArticleRestaurants Serve Cultural Revolution Nostalgia
Adam Century at The Atlantic looks at Chongqing’s red restaurant phenomenon in which eateries take on Cultural Revolution-era themes to attract customers. The walls of Old Base (laojidi), a bustling...
View ArticleMao Zedong Reinvented at Memorial Museum
As China gears up for Mao Zedong’s lavish 120th birthday anniversary celebrations, Denise Ho and Christopher Young explain his rebranding from “revolutionary” to “incorruptible government official” at...
View ArticleXu Youyu on Defiance in Sensitive Times
China Change has posted an adaptation of a 2011 essay by liberal scholar and Charter 08 signatory Xu Youyu. Xu recalls his brushes with the police over the years, accusing them of shamelessly...
View ArticleWriter Who Published Mao Victims’ Memoirs Charged
Writer Huang Zerong, also known by the pen name Tie Liu, has been officially charged by Chinese authorities for criticizing the Chinese government and publishing the memoirs of some who suffered under...
View ArticleRevisiting China Under Mao
In an interview with The New York Times’ Ian Johnson, sociologist Andrew G. Walder, discussed his new book, “China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed,” and the politics of Maoist China: Q. I was struck...
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On 100th Anniversary of CCP, Xi Declares Triumph of Socialism
On July 1, weeks of secretive preparations for the Party’s centenary culminated in a massive ceremony in Tiananmen Square punctuated by a martial speech delivered by Xi Jinping. Xi warned that anyone...
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Lockdown Voices: Pain, Hunger, and a Journalist Determined To Speak the Truth...
Xinhua reports that Xi’an has “basically” achieved “social clearance,” the end of community transmission of the coronavirus. Approximately 13 million people remain in lockdown, tens of thousands are...
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