China Targets Family, Friends to Coerce Activists

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Tienchi Martin-Liao:“Southern Porridge”: Wordplay in Darkness

January 30, 2013

What does the Southern Weekly incident mean for the future of free speech in China?

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

September 4, 2014

Is the Cultural Revolution making a comeback?

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

How Israel is winning the social media war in China

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The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine has captivated and polarised international opinion. While Israeli fighter jets were pulverising buildings with “precision weapons” Continue reading

Zhang Weiwei:My Personal Memories as Deng Xiaoping’s Interpreter: From Oriana Fallaci to Kim Il-sung to Gorbachev

Posted: 08/25/2014 1:02 pm EDT Updated: 08/25/2014 3:59 pm EDT

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SHANGHAI — August 22 marked the anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s birth 110 years go. Though 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