179. HUANG KAIPING (released)

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Huang Kaiping

Sex                              Male

Birth date                1982-09-29

Birth place               Loudi City, Hunan Province

Resident place        Haidian District, Beijing Continue reading →

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Creative Writing in China

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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

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china-npc_2_jpg_600x643_q85By Ian Johnson

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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

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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?

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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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CDT Bookshelf: Heather Inwood’s Verse Going Viral

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at-Emmas-wedding_2-243x300Heather Inwood (image courtesy interviewee)

Poetry is revered in China, but is it still a living art form? In 2006, Han Han said modern poetry–and poets–are of “zero value.” Reverence for classical poetry begins when children are taught to Continue reading →

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‘I Don’t Know Where Some Cadres Get Their Magical Powers’ And Other Quotations from Xi Jinping’s New Book on Corruption

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Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Earlier this month, at the close of the Chinese Communist Party’s 5th Plenum, the official People’s Daily noted on its website that as this important agenda-setting meeting came to a close Continue reading →

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Teng Biao: What will this crackdown on activists do to China’s nascent civil society?

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Even the renowned rights lawyer Pu Zhiquiang has been caught up in the arrests since 2012. But the democratic push won’t stop

Chinese-human-rights-lawy-010Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang

Pu Zhiqiang speaking to reporters at the Chongqing higher people’s court in southwest China’s Chongqing municipality, 28 December 2012. Photograph: Yongping Xu/EPA Continue reading →

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