China Closes School ‘Teaching Women to Be Obedient’
Chinese authorities have shut down an institute that was teaching women to be obedient and subordinate to men.
China’s New Tool for Social Control: A Credit Rating for Everything
Beijing wants to give every citizen a score based on behavior such as spending habits and filial piety, which can bar citizens from loans, jobs, air travel
What Does a Fried Chicken Restaurant Have to do With Prostitution? China Wants to Know
One business in China is learning that a play on words can get it in trouble with the government
Environment
04.02.15
‘Wolf Totem’ Trainer Sees Risks, Rewards for Hollywood in China
from chinadialogueWolf trainer Andrew Simpson has just wrapped up three years in Beijing coaching wolves to perform in the film version of the novel Wolf Totem. The Sino-French adaptation of...
Media
10.10.14
China Bans Law-Breaking Actors From Movies and Television
Amid an ongoing government campaign against drugs, prostitution, and other moral vices, a powerful government agency has reportedly issued new regulations banning...
Sinica Podcast
04.07.14
In Conversation with Timothy Garton Ash
from Sinica PodcastThis week on Sinica, Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn are pleased to host a conversation with Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of History at Oxford University and recent participant in the Capital M Literary Festival in Beijing. As one the world's...
The NYRB China Archive
03.24.14
Chinese Atheists? What the Pew Survey Gets Wrong
from New York Review of BooksEarlier this month, I came across a fascinating opinion survey by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project. The report asked people in forty countries whether belief in God is necessary for morality. Mostly, the...
The NYRB China Archive
02.04.14
China’s Way to Happiness
from New York Review of BooksRichard Madsen is one of the modern-day founders of the study of Chinese religion. A professor at the University of California San Diego, the seventy-three-year-old’s works include Morality and Power in a Chinese Village, China and...
Amid China’s Anti-Extravagance Sweep
Chinese hotels are downgrading to attract business from officials who are limited by “morality” campaigns.
Confucius Comes Home
In my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a seven-hundred-year-old shrine to China’s most important philosopher.
Xi Jinping Hopes Traditional Faiths Can Fill Moral Void in China
President Xi Jinping believes China is losing its moral compass and he wants the ruling Communist Party to be more tolerant of traditional faiths in the hope these will help fill a vacuum created by the country’s breakneck growth and rush...
Rage, Smelly Socks and Stolen Wine in China’s Skies
A look at the recent high volume of unruly behavior from flight passengers, and how it reflects on the “national character" of the Chinese people.
Sinica Podcast
06.08.12
Morally Adrift?
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...
Sinica Podcast
08.13.10
The Guo Degang Affair and China Apologists
from Sinica PodcastThis week on Sinica, Jeremy Goldkorn, Gady Epstein, Will Moss, and David Moser join Kaiser to talk about the Guo Degang Affair. When a fight with the media at the famous comedian’s house became news, the incident sparked a week of heated public...