Monthly Archives: 2 月 2015

Zhai Minglei:The Kou Yanding I Know

SONY DSCPublished: February 4, 2015 (Chinese original was published in October, 2014.)

Get a glimpse of one of the quietest but most admirable NGO activists in China who has been held incommunicado since October 10th, 2014. – The Editor

KOU YANDING (寇延丁)

At this very moment, I am in Shanghai, jotting down some memories Continue reading

179. HUANG KAIPING (released)

Huang Kaiping

Sex                              Male

Birth date                1982-09-29

Birth place               Loudi City, Hunan Province

Resident place        Haidian District, Beijing Continue reading

Creative Writing in China

Posted on 1 February 2015 by Nicholas Jose

Creative fiction has a venerable history in the People’s Republic of China. Many would argue that the nation’s very foundations lie in its creative fictions. Continue reading

How to Be a Chinese Democrat: An Interview with Liu Yu

china-npc_2_jpg_600x643_q85By Ian Johnson

Carl De Keyzer/Magnum Photos

The Great Hall of the People, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 2007

Liu Yu is one of China’s best-known America-watchers. A professor of political science at Continue reading

China Warns Against ‘Western Values’ in Imported Textbooks

30sino-texts01-tmagArticleBy CHRIS BUCKLEY JANUARY 30, 2015 6:16 AM January 30, 2015 6:16 am

Students at Renmin University in Beijing. Education officials have warned against teaching materials that might promote Western values.Credit Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times

In law school at Peking University in the late 1970s, Li Keqiang, now China’s premier, was an avid student of English and helped translate texts that gave his generation its first, exhilarating exposure to Western legal ideals after the death of Mao. Continue reading

How extensive is the official crackdown on Chinese internet access?

January 31, 2015 at 4:31 PM EST

Jonathan Landreth, managing editor of ChinaFile, the Asia Society’s online magazine, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the Chinese crackdown on the country’s access to the Internet this week. Continue reading