Category Archives: Headlines

Tienchi Martin-Liao:“Our love is a firm religious sentiment”: Love Behind Bars

December 19, 2012

The true love story of Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia.

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Liu Xia cries on December 6, 2012, Continue reading

China Targets Family, Friends to Coerce Activists

The Associated Press’ Didi Tang reports on the pressure applied to friends Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:Xi Jinping’s Black and White World

September 4, 2014

Is the Cultural Revolution making a comeback?

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CCP officer Zhang Yingwei. Photo provided by author.

The Cultural Revolution ended in August 1977, or so the 11th National Continue reading

Hong Kong—Now What?-A ChinaFile Conversation

DAVID SCHLESINGER, MEI FONG, NICHOLAS BEQUELIN 09.02.14

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Pro-democracy protestors hold up a sign (center) reading: “Chinese Communist Party: You Lie!” They gathered in front of the Government Offices in Central, Continue reading

China’s Education Gap

By HELEN GAOSEPT. 4, 2014

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BEIJING — Every September, the campuses of Peking and Tsinghua Universities, dubbed the Harvard and M.I.T. of China, Continue reading

Chang Ping:The Triumph of Propaganda

published: September 4, 2014

The U. S. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) recently issued a report titled Curriculum and Ideology which stated that the Chinese Communist government’s ideological education was startlingly effective: the textbooks for the course “ideology and Continue reading

Hong Kong may find unexpected support from mainland netizens for its fight for democracy


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Alia | September 3rd, 2014 – 9:47 pm

The divide between Hong Kong Continue reading

Top Chinese university warns against criticising Communist Party: journal

BEIJING, Sept 1 Mon Sep 1, 2014 3:56am EDT
(Reuters) – One of China’s top universities has urged students and teachers to “fight against” criticism of the ruling Communist Party, an influential party journal said, in the latest curbs on free expression. Continue reading