A range of observers and experts predicted that mainland China’s rapid economic modernization since the early 1990s would lead to social and political liberalization. Needless to say, that has not come to pass. The mainland’s economic reforms...
Since Xi Jinping became president of China, there has been a sustained crackdown on advocates of democracy and civil society. A couple hundred Chinese citizens have been arrested and tried or await trial. Lawyer and activist ...
Some fear that Xu and his fellow activists in the New Citizens Movement had formed an “anti-CCP clique”.
A public letter from the wife of Xu Zhiyong shows the emotional burden imposed on the family members of jailed dissidents.
Following is legal activist Xu Zhiyong’s closing statement at the end of his trial in Beijing on January 22, 2014. According to his...
Xu Zhiyong tried to change China from the inside, but now he will be tried by the inside.
On the last weekend of every month, government critics gather for unassuming meals in as many as 20 cities across the country to discuss issues from failures in the legal system to unequal access to education.
