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HSBC story deleted from Weibo

Posted on 02/10/2015 by | HSBC story deleted from Weibo已关闭评论

The following post from user “LifeTime” was deleted from Weibo sometime before 8:31AM today, February 10, 2015, less than 12 hours after it was posted. Continue reading →

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HELEN GAO:China Sharpens Its Censorship Blade

Posted on 02/08/2015 by | HELEN GAO:China Sharpens Its Censorship Blade已关闭评论

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Credit Jing Wei

BEIJING — In early November, when Beijing played host to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, city officials closed hundreds of factories and forced millions of vehicles Continue reading →

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Mo Yan’s ‘Frog’

Posted on 02/06/2015 by | Mo Yan’s ‘Frog’已关闭评论

By JULIA LOVELL  FEB. 6, 2015

 

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In October 2012, Mo Yan became the first citizen of mainland China Continue reading →

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Zhai Minglei：The Kou Yanding I Know

Posted on 02/05/2015 by | Zhai Minglei：The Kou Yanding I Know已关闭评论

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 →

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Creative Writing in China

Posted on 02/04/2015 by | Creative Writing in China已关闭评论

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 →

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

Posted on 02/03/2015 by | How to Be a Chinese Democrat: An Interview with Liu Yu已关闭评论

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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 →

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China Warns Against ‘Western Values’ in Imported Textbooks

Posted on 02/02/2015 by | China Warns Against ‘Western Values’ in Imported Textbooks已关闭评论

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 →

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How extensive is the official crackdown on Chinese internet access?

Posted on 02/01/2015 by | How extensive is the official crackdown on Chinese internet access?已关闭评论

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 →

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