Conversation
12.02.22

Jiang Zemin, 1926-2022

Julia Lovell, Ian Johnson & more

Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin died on Wednesday at the age of 96, shortly after anger about the zero-COVID policy had boiled over into a wave of protest last weekend. Jiang took the country through the boom years of the 1990s, a time now...

The NYRB China Archive
06.27.19

China’s ‘Black Week-end’

Ian Johnson
from New York Review of Books

When Chinese law professor Xu Zhangrun began publishing articles last year criticizing the government’s turn toward a harsher variety of authoritarianism, it seemed inevitable that he would be swiftly silenced. But then, remarkably, dozens of...

Postcard
05.30.19

Four Is Forbidden

Yangyang Cheng

Liusi. Six-four. The two-syllable word, spoken nonchalantly by our teacher, was a stone cast into the tranquil pond of a classroom. From each ripple rose a gasp, a murmur, or a perplexed face, with only one or two enunciating the question on many...

Viewpoint
11.10.17

Bathed in the Xi Jinping Bromance

Orville Schell

Sitting in a grand salon of the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square and awaiting the official arrival ceremony of President Trump was to be taken back to that period of Sino-Soviet amity when Stalin was Mao’s “big brother...

Conversation
04.06.16

China in the Panama Papers

Andrew J. Nathan, Bill Bishop & more

The overseas wealth of several relatives of senior Chinese leaders has come to light in an International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)...

Caixin Media
11.05.12

Scenes from a Leadership Transition

Jiang Zemin’s Lyrical Memory

Compiled by Caixin

(Beijing)—A glance at off-hours correspondence between two veteran leaders has added a lighter dimension to the recent public appearances of former Politburo members in the run-up to...