Viewpoint
09.15.17

The Unprecedented Reach of China’s Surveillance State

Stanley Lubman

The Chinese Party-state is building a social credit system for collecting information about all of its citizens by police, courts, and other institutions. This enables the government to reach into society to a degree unprecedented...

Is China’s Grand Ethnic Experiment Working?

In a gleaming classroom at Chong Hua High School in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, students peer at onion slices under microscopes. Their biology teacher calls on Abdurrahman Mamat to explain what he sees.

"Plasmolysis," he replies...

Why China Chose a French-Directed Film as Its Oscar Submission

“It’s a mild, breezy, accessible, feel-good drama which really pictures China as a harmonious, wonderful place where conflicts of various stripes—across age, class or geographical divides—could easily be reconciled,” said Clarence Tsui, a film...

Media
07.03.12

Project Harmony: The Chorus behind China’s Voice

Amy Qin

With a population of more than 1.3 billion people, can there really be such thing as a single “voice of China”? According to the Chinese government, the answer is, without question, yes. Not only does there exist a “China's voice” or a “Chinese...

Sinica Podcast
06.08.12

Morally Adrift?

Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn & more
from Sinica Podcast
It’s easy to get depressed about China’s apparent drift toward amorality: the kind of pervasive screw-your-neighbor approach to getting ahead (or even just getting by) that seems increasingly common on the mainland. The news is full of horrific...