Jailed Dissident’s Wife: ‘I Don’t Want You to Give Up’
A public letter from the wife of Xu Zhiyong shows the emotional burden imposed on the family members of jailed dissidents.
Chinese Court Places Heavy Sentence on Prominent Activist
The most closely watched trial of a Chinese dissident in years calls attention to CCP clamp down on dissent.
China: Reverse Judgment in Show Trial of Xu Zhiyong
The harsh conviction and four-year sentence of Xu Zhiyong is a pretext to chill popular protests against corruption.
China's Deluxed Hotels: Modern Sumptuary Laws
The new humility of both officials and hotels is a response to Xi's campaign against lavish spending.
A Dream Deferred
The challenge the ICIJ expose poses to Xi's reputation as an anti-corruption crusader, is a vindication of Xu's advocacy.
Amid China’s Anti-Extravagance Sweep
Chinese hotels are downgrading to attract business from officials who are limited by “morality” campaigns.
Grand Theft China: Tase Corrupt Officials in New Online Game
Official corruption in China is a serious matter: In January 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping openly vowed to tackle it, and a 2013...
Top Chinese Security Official Is Investigated
Li Dongsheng, a vice minister of public security, is being investigated by the Communist Party for “suspected serious law and discipline violations,” according to Xinhua...
In China, ‘Everyone is Guilty of Corruption’
Much as I appreciate our president’s determination in his fight against corruption, his battle feels like an attempt to “put out a big fire with a glass of water,” given how corruption has reached every corner of our society....
Bo Xilai May Have Gotten Off Easy
On October 25, the Shandong High People’s Court rejected the appeal of Bo Xilai, the former Party Secretary of Chongqing who on September 22 was convicted of bribe-taking,...
China Companies Rank Lowest in Survey of Transparency Reporting
The report draws attention to a Chinese business environment corrupt due to minimal public-reporting requirements. Party leaders have warned that corruption threatens their grip on power and have announced anti-graft investigations of a...
Famous Trials of China’s Communist Party
An historical look at two other famous trials in recent Communist Party history: the Gang of Four trial after the Cultural Revolution, and the corruption trials of Chen Xitong and Chen Liangyu which bears greater resemblance to the Bo Xilai case...
Bo Xilai ‘Will Appeal’ Verdict and Sentence Jinan Court Hands Down
Defiant princeling Bo Xilai is likely to appeal against the verdict and sentence a Jinan court hands down today (9/22) in his trial for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power, sources with direct knowledge of the case say....
Wison Engineering Services Shares Details of a Corruption Investigation
Wison’s disclosure is the latest public signs of a spreading corruption inquiry into the China National Petroleum Corporation that has brought down one senior Chinese Communist Party official.
A Chill, Ill Wind Blows Across China
Beijing’s anti-corruption campaign against public intellectuals and corrupt officials—while widely heralded by the official Chinese media—seems like one destined for short-term gain but long-term pain.
Political Maneuvering: The Plot Thickens
Xi Jinping has been taking down crooked officials in an attempt to consolidate power and make good on a promise to clean up the Party. But what does it mean now he’s set his sights on former chief of domestic security and one-time oilman Zhou...
Amid Scandals, Can China’s New Organ Transplant System Work?
The now oft-derided Chinese Red Cross once again found itself in hot water in July, when it was reported that some...
Chinese Official Yu Qiyi ‘Drowned by Investigators’
Yu Qiyi, who was a Communist Party member of Wenzhou Industry Investment Group, died during the shuanggui process, an internal disciplinary procedure where officials are asked to confess wrongdoings.
China Corruption Probe Reflects Struggle
Analysts argue the investigation, which involves four other top executives of state-owned enterprises, is an attempt by Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang to assert their authority over powerful S.O.E.’s.
China’s Corruption Purge Continues Against Zhou Yongkang
As the Chinese public is eagerly awaiting the verdict of Bo Xilai, China’s anti-corruption agency is taking down another target: the 70-year-old Zhou Yongkang, dubbed by overseas media as China’s security tsar, has been put under house...
Bribery in G.S.K. China Was Coordinated at Company Level
A Chinese police investigation into drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline has discovered that alleged bribery of doctors in China was coordinated by the British company and was not the work of individual employees, state media reported on September 3...
Bribery Charges in China for Official Whose Child Worked for JPMorgan
State prosecutors have accused former Minister of Railways Zhang Shuguang of accepting graft payments of around 47 million renminbi, or nearly $8 million at current exchange rates, according to reports.
China’s New Leaders Exert Control Over Oil Company
The crackdown on China’s biggest company — also the second-largest oil company in the world — signals the new administration’s determination to exert control over the powerful sector, said Cheng Li, a Brookings Institution scholar....
Zhou Yongkang, Former Security Tsar Linked to Bo Xilai, Faces Corruption Probe
Sources said top leaders made the decision in view of the rising anger inside the party at the scale of the corruption problem and the vast fortune that Zhou's family has amassed. Xi ordered officials in charge of the case to “get to the...
China Investigating More Top PetroChina Executives Over Corruption
A high-level government probe into corruption at China's leading oil and gas firm widened on Tuesday, with three additional senior officials at the state-run giant being investigated over alleged wrongdoing, which is C.C.P. shorthand for...
China seen probing IBM, Oracle, EMC after Snowden leaks
China’s Ministry of Public Security and a cabinet-level research center are preparing to investigate IBM Corp, ...
China Sets Timeline for Resolving Bo Xilai Scandal
China set a timeline for the prosecution of disgraced Politburo member Bo Xilai, moving to resolve a scandal that overshadowed a once-in-a-decade transfer of power and tested the unity of new Communist Party leaders.
China Orders Ban on New Government Buildings
The new directive, which bans the construction of government buildings for the next five years, showed clear signs of being a continuation of the anticorruption campaign, describing the ban as “important for building a clean government” and...
China Orders Ban on New Government Buildings
The ban is the latest in a series of initiatives by President Xi Jinping to discourage corruption and foster frugality at a time of broad popular resentment against high-living bureaucrats.
Is Xi Jinping’s Fight Against Corruption For Real?
Roderick MacFarquhar:
Xi Jinping’s overriding aim is the preservation of Communist party rule in China, as he made clear in speeches shortly after his elevation to be China’s senior leader. Like his predecessors, he is obsessed...
Former Bank Executive In China Faces Bribe Accusations
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said Yang Kun, a former vice president of the state-controlled Agricultural Bank of China, had been expelled from the party and handed over to criminal investigators.
Being A Chinese Government Official Is One Of The Worst Jobs In The World
Chinese officials, like political dissidents or regular citizens, also suffer under a party that is accountable chiefly to itself and a government that arbitrarily enforces laws.
Rebel Chinese Newspaper Dares To Challenge Party Line
Operating out of two rooms in a dilapidated pharmaceutical factory, and with a staff of four, the Voice of the People is a muckraking freesheet challenging the local propaganda paper.
China’s Frills and Posh Market Springs a Leak
Imagine a luxury goods shopper so confident and flush with cash that one day he walks into a Shanghai handbag shop, flashes 300,000 yuan, and waltzes out with almost every bag in stock.
That’s what happened last year at a Prada store where...
“China’s Leonard Cohen” Calls Out Political Corruption
On “These Tiny Grapes,” Zuoxiao Zuzhou’s new album of edgy ballads focusing on the woes of modern-day China, he hones in on rampant corruption, food scandals, injustice and abuse of power.
S.E.C. Inquiry Into China Film Trade Unnerves Hollywood
How a Run-Down Government Building Became the Hottest Item on China’s Social Web
It is perhaps a sign of the times in China that an image of nothing more than a ramshackle county government building could echo so widely. Since its posting on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, hours before New Year’s Eve, the image (see below) has...
China's Anti-Corruption Tool Kit: No Flowers, Expensive Booze or 'Empty Talk'
China's new leadership has made combating the country’s endemic corruption one of its publicly stated missions.
The Fourth Estate
from Sinica PodcastFollowing the Chinese media’s intense coverage of the blitzkrieg trial of Gu Kailai, those of us at Sinica want to take this opportunity to look back at the most riveting China story of the year. And while we’ve covered developments week-by-week...
China’s Falling Star
from New York Review of BooksIn China, the year is traditionally divided into periods based on the moon’s orbit around the earth and the sun’s path across the sky. This lunisolar calendar is laden with myths and celebrated by rituals that allowed Chinese to mark time and...