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MURONG XUECUN: Corrupting the Chinese Language

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May 28, 2015

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On a recent walk along a street in the southern Chinese city of Sanya, I heard a shop pumping out a rock version of the famous Communist Party anthem “Socialism Is Good.” Continue reading →

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China’s Publishers Court America as Its Authors Scorn Censorship

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chinabook-articleLargeBy ALEXANDRA ALTER May 29, 2015

Protesters, including some Chinese writers, at the New York Public Library this week while a Chinese publishing delegation attended BookExpo only blocks away.
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A few years ago, the Chinese writer Murong Xuecun had the kind of Continue reading →

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China Stops Tibetans Leaving The Country on Vacation

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Tibetans pose for a group photo at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in undated photo.
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The ruling Chinese Communist Party has implemented new Continue reading →

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China’s Women’s Rights Movement Has Long History

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May 19, 2015 9:02 AM

HONG KONG—Earlier this year several feminists in China were arrested just before an international day celebrating women’s equality. They were some of Continue reading →

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China Reforms to Curb Torture Don’t Go Far Enough-Human Rights Watch

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Geng He, wife of China’s leading human rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, speaks at a press conference in Washington, Sept. 9, 2014.
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Measures introduced by China over the past six years to curb torture and mistreatment of criminal detainees have not done enough to reduce abuses, Continue reading →

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Chinese Netizens Migrate Away From Closely Censored Weibo Platforms

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Netizens at an Internet cafe in China’s Zhejiang province, Nov. 2, 2012.
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China’s 642 million Internet users are gradually abandoning the once-popular Twitter-like Sina Weibo and similar sites, as several years of crippling censorship is revealed in recent research, Continue reading →

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Q. and A.: Francis Fukuyama on China’s Political Development

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By QITONG CAO MAY 1, 2015 4:18 AM May 1, 2015 4:18 am

Francis Fukuyama’s widely read essay “The End of History?” — published just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 — posited that Western liberal democracy may turn out to be the endpoint of political development. So when Mr. Fukuyama laid out what he considered Continue reading →

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China’s New Internet Rules Raise Questions Over Role of Agency

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Tough new regulations requiring online publishers to attend “chats” with officials Continue reading →

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