China’s College Counselors Told to Join the Party — the Communist Party
China’s Education Ministry has deemed universities an “ideological frontline”.
How China Wants to Rate Its Citizens
In certain respects, a national credit system of some kind is long overdue in China.
China Is Losing Interest in Learning English
China is losing interest in learning English, sending its proficiency in the global language of business falling ten places in a worldwide ranking.
Kids Get Violent: China's School Bullying Epidemic
Liu Lizhu was not aware her shy, 15-year-old son had been bullied at school until he ended up in hospital with a ruptured spleen.
Teaching the Common Core in China
It was to be my first parents meeting at Zhoushan’s most elite high school.
Media
10.23.15
The Eagle, the Dragon, and the ‘Excellent Sheep’
Former Yale University English professor William Deresiewicz’s book, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the...
Chinese Schools 'Robbing Young of Individuality'
China's education system is robbing its young people of the chance to become unique individuals.
China Turns to Online Courses, and Mao, for Soft-Power Mission
“It was like watching propaganda.”
Sinica Podcast
10.05.15
Edmund Backhouse in the Long View of History
from Sinica PodcastEdmund Backhouse, the 20th century Sinologist, long-time Beijing resident, and occasional con-artist, is perhaps best known for his incendiary memoirs, which not only distorted Western understanding of Chinese history for more than 50 years, but...
Q. and A.: Johannes Chan on Academic Freedom in Hong Kong
The governing council of the University of Hong Kong rejected this week the nomination of Johannes Chan.
Environment
09.25.15
Weak Case for UK’s China-Funded Nuclear Plant, Critics Say
from chinadialogueThe U.K. and China moved closer this week to finalizing the finance of a highly controversial plan to build the first new nuclear power plant in the U.K. for a...
Respect Your Elders: Confucian Kindergartens Catch On in China
The Party is now introducing traditional culture classes in state-run kindergartens and other levels of schooling.
China’s Economic Crisis Ripples at Area Colleges
As of last year, more than 13,000 Chinese students were attending college in Boston, out of a total of 44,000 foreign students in the city.
China Punishes Nearly 200 Over ‘Rumors’ About Stocks, Blasts and Parade
The moves indicate the political sensitivities aggravated in recent weeks by several volatile issues.
6 Arrested in China After Dressing Room Sex Video Goes Viral
A 19-year-old man was charged with disseminating obscene material. The couple pictured and three others were detained.
China’s Confucius Institutes and the Soft War
The first Confucius Institute opened its door in November 2004 in Seoul, South Korea. Hanban, or the Chinese National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language.
Chinese Tourists Warned over Turkey Uighur Protests
China advised citizens against travelling to Turkey after it said several tourists were attacked in protests over the Chinese government's treatment of Uighur Muslims.
Sinica Podcast
07.01.15
Who Will Save Us from the Self-help Revolution?
Someone desperately needs to call a fumigator, because China’s self-help bug is eating up the woodwork. Train station bookstores may always have served the genre’s trite pablum to bored businessmen legging it cross-country, but in recent months...
Environment
07.01.15
China Deepens Planned Cuts to Carbon Intensity
from chinadialogueChina has mapped out how it will try and peak greenhouse emissions by 2030 or before, details that could have a major bearing on U.N. climate talks aimed at delivering a deal in Paris later this year.
The world’s largest emitter of...
Media
06.26.15
‘Why Do Chinese Lack Creativity?’
On June 19, the University of Washington and elite Tsinghua University in Beijing announced a new, richly funded...
Teaching Uighur Children Mandarin will not Bring Stability to Xinjiang
More schools move to use Chinese only, except a few hours each week in Uighur literature. President Xi Jinping emphasizes this policy as a way to fight terrorism.
The Village and the Girl
The destruction of rural China became for pig farmer Xiao Zhang a liberation and an opportunity.
Media
06.17.15
American Students in China: It’s Not as Authoritarian as We Thought
For some American students about to embark on a study abroad trip to China, the U.S. media reports of Chinese Internet censorship, jailing of dissidents, and draconian population control laws may dominate their perception of the country. But...
Environment
06.15.15
China’s Greehouse Gas Emissions Likely to Peak by 2025
from chinadialogueChina’s output of greenhouse gases could peak in 2025, five years earlier than it has promised, meaning that the world’s largest emitter may be able to quicken the pace of cuts in coming decades, according to a new...
Books
06.10.15
China’s Millennials
In 1989, students marched on Tiananmen Square demanding democratic reform. The Communist Party responded with a massacre, but it was jolted into restructuring the economy and overhauling the education of its young citizens. A generation later, Chinese youth are a world apart from those who converged at Tiananmen. Brought up with lofty expectations, they’ve been accustomed to unprecedented opportunities on the back of China’s economic boom. But today, China’s growth is slowing and its demographics rapidly shifting, with the boom years giving way to a painful hangover.
Caixin Media
06.09.15
China’s Cabinet Unveils Plan to Improve Rural Schools
The State Council has released a plan for improving the quality of education in rural areas over the next five years—a move the cabinet says is aimed at improving the quality of teaching at primary and secondary schools in the country’s less-...
China Is Exporting its Tiananmen Censorship, and We Are All Victims
Twenty six years after the killing of student protesters, the code of silence is spreading worldwide.
Media
06.02.15
Chinese Netizens to Fiorina: You’re Right, We Don’t Innovate
Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and a declared Republican candidate for U.S. president, evidently has strong opinions about the capacities of Chinese people. “Yeah, the Chinese can take a test,” Fiorina told an Iowa-based video...
Will China Close Its Doors?
The draft “Foreign NGO Management Law” is part of a package of legislation that includes strict laws on national security and antiterrorism.
Environment
05.28.15
Chinese Posters Warn of the Dangers of Smog
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An exhibition of smog-inspired posters is touring the polluted cities of northern and eastern China this month to draw attention to the impending environmental disaster.
Created by a group of Chinese designers...
China Warned Over ‘Insane’ Plans for New Nuclear Power Plants
He Zuoxiu, a leading scientist, says China is not investing enough in safety controls after the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
Q. and A.: Luo Yufeng, a.k.a. Sister Feng, on Life as a Manicurist in New York
Sister Feng, whose real name is Luo Yufeng, is an Internet celebrity with more than 4.7 million followers on Sina Weibo
Chinese Professors Among 6 Charged with Economic Espionage
U.S. federal prosecutors allege Beijing sponsored economic espionage in the alleged theft of sensitive American made radio frequency filters.
Why Hong Kong is Clamping Down on Creative Writing
The decision to close City University’s MFA program is plainly intended to limit free expression.
Environment
05.19.15
Dredging For Disaster
from Foreign PolicyTensions are rising in the South China Sea. On May 16, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Beijing for talks which...
The Worrying Rise of Anti-China Discourse in the US
Forget U.S. patrols in the South China Sea. This is the real threat to U.S.-China relations.
Sinica Podcast
05.18.15
Leonard Bernstein and China
from Sinica PodcastThis week on Sinica, Kaiser Kuo and David Moser are delighted to host Alexander Bernstein, son of Leonard Berstein and director of the Bernstein Family Foundation, who is now in China on part of a cultural tour. Accompanied by Alison Friedman of...
Wang Qishan Highlights Party Discipline in Anti-Corruption Effort
Wang pledged to enhance institutional innovation and let discipline take the lead in the anti-graft campaign.
China Focus: Cross-Strait Economic Forum Held in Shanghai
The forum could invite a wider spectrum of people to cover major issues of cross-Strait development.
Q. and A.: Francis Fukuyama on China's Political Development
Stanford historian argues an effective political system has to balance state capacity against rule of law and democracy.
Environment
04.30.15
‘Blue Sky’ App Gets China’s Public Thinking About Pollution Solutions
from chinadialogueThe Blue Sky Map app, which was officially launched April 28 by the Institute of...
China Rethinks Safety Net for Its Banking System
New deposit insurance could shake the public’s faith in the long-held belief in failsafe government bailouts.
Bat-Winged Dinosaur Fossil Discovered in China
The new dinosaur is named Yi qi (pronounced "ee chee") and means "strange wing" in Mandarin.
Environment
04.24.15
Fracking May be Needed in China to Wean it Off Coal
from chinadialogueFracking of China’s huge shale gas reserves will only have a modest impact on the environment if anti-pollution controls—many of them new—are enforced rigorously, says a new report from the U.K.-based...
A Bittersweet Reprieve for Chinese Woman Who Killed Abusive Husband
The verdict left lawyers and activists doubtful of the Chinese legal system’s ability to protect women.
Cities in China’s North Resist Tapping Water Piped From South
Huge project transferring water from Yangtze River to drier regions runs into budgetary constraints.
The China Africa Project
04.18.15
Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in Africa
The Chinese government has spent billions of dollars in Africa on public diplomacy initiatives that are intended to improve the country’s image. Central to that strategy is the growing network of Confucius Institutes (CIs) spread across the...
China Releases 5 Women’s Rights Activists Detained for Weeks
Police released five female activists detained after campaigning against sexual harassment on public transport.
‘Masturbation Will Lead to Homosexuality’: China’s LGBT Sex-Ed Problem in Chinese
In a country where sex and sexuality remain taboo topics of discussion, such misinformation remains common.
Why Chinese Students Find it Hard to Make Friends on US Campuses
Chinese students complain that American students are misinformed, prejudiced and offensive on Chinese current events.
China Appears to Attack GitHub by Diverting Web Traffic
In recent attacks on sites that try to help Internet users in China circumvent censorship, the Great Firewall appears to have been used as a weapon.
How ‘Old Friend’ Lee Kuan Yew Influenced China
“Mr. Lee Kuan Yew was an old friend of the Chinese people,” Chinese President Xi Jinping wrote to Singapore President Tony Tan.
Media
03.20.15
China Has Its Own Anti-Vaxxers—Blame the Internet
While health officials in the United States and parts of Europe wrestle with a growing anti-vaccination, or “anti-vaxxer” movement, China is dealing with a less organized but similarly serious fear of immunizations. Social media reveals traces of...