New Political News Website Scolded by Party Propaganda Officials for 'Incorrect Practices'
Thepaper.cn given a 'stern warning' after it likely irked propaganda officials.
Fabled Uighur Princess Coming to Chinese Television as a Cartoon
Animators in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen are creating a 104-episode cartoon series loosely based on a historical Qing Dynasty imperial consort, a Uighur woman who is shrouded in myth.
China Says 8 Executed in Western Region; Charges Stem From Separatist Attacks
The executions were the latest in a succession of displays of might and resolve by the Chinese government, which is trying to extinguish increasingly violent discontent among Uighurs in Xinjiang.
His Start in Oil Fuelled Zhou’s Rise to Top Cop
Zhou Yongkang, a former member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the Communist Party's supreme decision-making body, has been the highest ranking Party cadre to be a target of a corruption investigation.
The Party's graft fighters...
Beijing Independent Film Festival Shut Down by Chinese Authorities
Organizers forced to sign documents promising not to hold festival, as China's crackdown on freedom of speech continues.
Xi Jinping Wants to be Seen As on a Par with Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping
Xi Jinping has amassed more power in 20 months than his two immediate predecessors, but it may be premature to call him China's new strongman.
New Map Shows China’s True Expanse, General Says
A new vertical map of China issued in June by the Hunan Map Publishing House, uses 10 dashes around the South China Sea to broadly delineate China’s claims to contested waters, shoals, rocks, reefs and islands there.
Wang Lixiong and Woeser: A Way Out of China’s Ethnic Unrest?
from New York Review of BooksWoeser and Wang Lixiong are two of China’s best-known thinkers on the government’s policy toward ethnic minorities. With violence in Tibet and Xinjiang now almost a monthly occurrence, I met them at their apartment in Beijing to talk about the...
Beyond the Dalai Lama: An Interview with Woeser and Wang Lixiong
from New York Review of BooksIn recent months, China has been beset by growing ethnic violence. In Tibet, 125 people have set themselves on fire since the suppression of 2008 protests over the country’s ethnic policies. In the Muslim region of Xinjiang, there have been a...
Chinese Rights Lawyer Grilled by Police Over Meetings with US Envoy, ‘Insults’ to Officials
Lawyer says timing of police questioning about well-known events could mean that authorities plan to charge Pu Zhiqiang with collusion.
China’s Xi Jinping Seeks Launch of New Media Clusters
Xi said that the new groups should be “diversified,” “advanced,” and “competitive” and said that state authorities should properly integrate and manage traditional and new media.”
China Arrests 1,000 Members of Banned Religious Cult 'Eastern Lightning'
State news agency Xinhua said that the group, which Beijing regards as a dangerous doomsday cult, cheated people, illegally collected money and "violated the law under the guise of religion."
China & the U.S.: “Complementary Rivals” in Africa
There is a persistent meme within the international media that China’s rise in Africa represents a “new scramble” for resources on the continent or a new form of colonialism. Beijing-based China-Africa analyst and attorney Kai Xue says, contrary...
China Chides U.S. Over Ferguson Violence, American Racism
State media of the world’s largest country has stepped up coverage of the Ferguson violence and protests, publishing commentaries accusing the United States of hypocrisy in seeking to be a global guardian of human rights.
Clive Palmer ‘Mongrel’ Comments Irresponsible, Says Chinese Embassy
Australian MP insists his TV remarks were aimed at specific company, but embassy condemns them as ‘full of ignorance and prejudice.’
Can Enigmatic Chinese Businessman Complete Nicaraguan Canal?
As Nicaragua granted a 50-year concession to a new development authority that would build a canal through the country, President Daniel Ortega celebrated a moment that would cement “total and complete independence.”
China Home Prices Fall in Most Cities on Weak Demand
China’s property market has become a drag on the world’s second-biggest economy, prompting cities to start easing local curbs in June.
Mao’s Little Red Book, Meet Xi Jinping’s Collected Speeches
Since its publication not quite two months ago, the somewhat turgidly named “A Reader of General-Secretary Xi Jinping’s Important Speeches” has already sold 10 million copies, its publisher reports.
Japan’s Abe Avoids Yasukuni Shrine
Japanese prime minister skips visit to controversial shrine to war dead in hopes of meeting with China’s Presidnet Xi Jinping.
In China’s Shadow, U.S. Courts Old Foe Vietnam
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, courted Vietnam over the past several days.
Vietnam and China—Through a Border Darkly
Relations between two Communist neighbors are at their lowest point in decades.
Finding the ‘Essence’ of China
from Sinica PodcastThis week, Kaiser Kuo and David Moser are delighted to host Jeremiah Jenne, Director at the Hutong, Beijing’s premier cultural exchange center, for a conversation that picks apart China’s obsession with “Chinese characteristics” and asks whether...
He Exposed Corrupt China Before He Left
from New York Review of BooksIn the late 1970s, when the passing of Mao made it possible for foreign journalists to work in China for the first time in three decades, the first reporters to get in wrote wide-ranging books that addressed nearly everything they could learn....
How Tianjin’s Top Cop Built Web of Corruption Over 40 Years
The fall of the public security chief, Wu Changshun, of the northern port city of Tianjin has rocked the local public security system and shed light on the graft network cultivated by Wu over 40 years.
The Central Discipline Inspection...
Chinese Dreamers
A dream, in the truest sense, is a solo act. It can’t be created by committee or replicated en masse. Try as you might, you can’t compel your neighbor to conjure up the reverie that you envision. And therein lies the latent,...
Simon Leys Remembered
Isabel Hilton: When I heard the news of the death of Pierre Ryckmans, better known by his pen name,...
Beards and Muslim Headscarves Banned From Buses In One Xinjiang City
A city in China’s remote western Xinjiang region has temporarily banned men with beards and women with Muslim headscarves from taking public...
China ‘Investigating Canada Couple Over State Secrets’
Chinese authorities are investigating a Canadian couple suspected of stealing state secrets about national defense and the military, state media say.
Top One Percent Has One-Third of China’s Wealth
A recent academic report on wealth inequality in China shows that the top one percent of households holds one-third of total assets, while the bottom fourth holds only one percent.
The report, published by a research institute in Peking...
China Says Can Build What It Wants On South China Sea Isles
China can build whatever it wants on its islands in the South China Sea, a senior Chinese official said on Monday, rejecting proposals ahead of a key regional meeting to freeze any activity that may raise tensions in disputed waters there.
China Says Can Build What it Wants on South China Sea Isles
China can build whatever it wants on its islands in the South China Sea, a senior Chinese official said, rejecting proposals ahead of a key regional meeting to freeze any activity that may raise tensions in disputed waters there.
China Says Violent Xinjiang Uprising Left Almost 100 Dead
Chinese police gunned down 59 people and arrested 215 during a violent uprising last week in the Xinjiang region, in a statement that shed fresh light on what dissident groups had earlier described as a major clash in the area.
China Says Violent Xinjiang Uprising Left Almost 100 Dead
Chinese police gunned down 59 people and arrested 215 during a violent uprising last week in the Xinjiang region, the government said Sunday, in a statement that shed fresh light on what dissident groups had earlier described as a major clash in...
Dan Washburn on ‘The Forbidden Game’
In an interview, Dan Washburn discussed how a nongolfer came to write about the sport, the future prospects of golf in China and how something that is technically banned has been able to expand so quickly.
The Rule of Law in China
from Sinica PodcastThis week on Sinica, Jeremy and David are joined by Donald Clarke, a professor at George Washington University where he specializes in Chinese law, for a discussion of what is happening with the Zhou Yongkang corruption scandal, as well as...
Why China’s Second-Baby Boom Might Not Happen
Six months since China announced the loosening of its restrictive one-child population policy, it is still too early to judge the ultimate impact. But experts now express more modest expectations.
China Harasses U.S. Tech Companies
China has opened what appear to be politically motivated antitrust investigations into American technology companies like Microsoft and Qualcomm. Foreign companies operating in the Communist country could be in for more intense harassment than...
Ex-Politburo Members Accused of ‘Serious Discipline Violations’ Always Face Courts
After much speculation, the axe has finally fallen on Zhou Yongkang, the former public security chief and member of the Politburo Standing Committee, indicating the Communist Party’s campaign against corruption will grant no exceptions to the...
Paper Tiger
For 10 months, the fate of Zhou Yongkang existed in a space of plausible deniability. Respected Western media outlets had reported...
22 Attackers Shot Dead in Xinjiang Violence as Extremists Wielding Axes Targeted Civilians
Attack on government office and police station follows series of violent incidents in restive province.
Beijing Begins Apparent Corruption Probe Into High-Level Official
China has begun investigations into one of the country's senior politicians. Zhou Yongkang was a former domestic security chief, and he's suspected of "serious disciplinary violations" — a phrase which usually stands for corruption.
China to Help 100 Million Settle in Cities
China State Council said it plans to help about 100 million people without urban ID records to settle in towns and cities by 2020 in a reform of the nation's household registration, or "hukou," system.
CPC to Hold Key Session on Rule of Law
The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee said in a meeting Tuesday presided over by the CPC Central Committee's general secretary Xi Jinping, that it will discuss governing "according to law."
China Puts Ex-Security Chief Zhou Yongkang Under Investigation
China launched a formal investigation into one of the Communist Party’s most senior figures, lifting a cloak of immunity that has shielded the country’s highest ranks for at least 25 years, in President Xi Jinping’s boldest move yet to solidify...
Zhou Yongkang Political Aides [GRAPHIC]
Reuters has put together a great graphic on Zhou's inner circle many of whom are being investigated themselves. Four, Li Chuncheng, Hua Bangsong,Liu Han, and his son Zhou Bin have already been arrested or are charged. Li Dongsheng, Jiang Jiemin,...
The Diplomatic Battle Between China and Japan is Taking a Latin American Road Trip
When Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe appeals to officials and business people in Central and South America this week, his hosts will be comparing him to another recent visitor: Chinese president Xi Jinping.
China Activists Fight Gay ‘Conversion Therapy’
Gay rights activists in China are preparing for what they say could be a legal milestone in their fight to stop homosexuality being treated as an illness.
China Removes Crosses From Two More Churches in Crackdown
In another sign of the authorities’ efforts to contain one of China’s fastest-growing religions, a government demolition campaign against public symbols of the Christian faith has toppled crosses at two more churches in the coastal province of...
China’s Leaders Draw Lessons From War of ‘Humiliation’
The lessons from the twilight of the Qing Dynasty have become all the more pointed today, when Chinese-Japanese ties are tenser than they have been for decades, and President Xi Jinping of China has embarked on an ambitious program to overhaul...
Hong Kong Protests and Suicide in China
from Sinica PodcastThis week on Sinica, we’re delighted to welcome back the stalwart Mr. Gady Epstein, Beijing correspondent for The Economist, to discuss the recent protests in Hong Kong, as well as the flux in China’s suicide rates. And specifically, we’...
The Chinese-African Honeymoon is Over
There is a growing sense among Africans and Chinese alike that their once heady romance is now entering a new, more pragmatic phase. Across Africa, people and politicians are becoming visibly more concerned about the surging trade deficits,...
Beijing Has Top-Secret View of China’s Employment
China’s government knows something investors don’t—well, a lot of things actually. But that is especially true when it comes to the country’s labor market.
China Manufacturing Gauge Rises to 18-Month High on Stimulus
A Chinese manufacturing gauge rose to an 18-month high in July, bolstering the government’s chances of meeting its 2014 economic-growth target of about 7.5 percent.
Chinese Blogger Jailed For ‘Rumor-Mongering’
A Chinese blogger known for criticizing the ruling Communist Party was sentenced on Wednesday to six-and-a-half years in jail, state media said, as authorities pursue a crackdown on online “rumors”.