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Questions Linger on New Education Rules

Sep 15, 2021 | Stella Chan
A new policy issued back in July governing China’s multi-billion dollar tutoring industry was ostensibly meant to reduce pressures on parents and kids. Here’s a quick look at some of the questions and concerns about the policy and its impact as glimpsed through the Chinese media.

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Fandoms in the Crosshairs

Sep 13, 2021 | CMP Staff

Tracking Control

Profound Transformations

Sep 1, 2021 | David Bandurski

China Newspeak

A History of Common Prosperity

Aug 27, 2021 | David Bandurski

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State Media Post on Taliban Prompts Backlash

Aug 17, 2021 | David Bandurski

Going Global

Growling Back at the West

Aug 8, 2021 | Lai Fu

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An Olympic Censorship Slip

Aug 3, 2021 | Joyce Chan

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Trapped

Jul 22, 2021 | CMP Staff

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As Disaster Strikes, Xi Takes the Headlines

Jul 21, 2021 | David Bandurski

Keyboard Warrior

Sep 9, 2021 | Stella Chen
For nearly a decade, the term “keyboard warrior,” or jiànpánxiá (键盘侠), has referred in China to people who use their computer keyboards (or their mobile screens) as weapons to make abusive or aggressive online posts on various social or political issues without revealing their real identities. The term has often been used by state media to criti…

Democracy

Aug 31, 2021 | Katja Drinhausen
In the PRC, democracy refers to the Marxist-Leninist system of democratic dictatorship (人民民主专政) and democratic centralism (民主集中制), in which the CCP is the ultimate representative of the peoples. This political system of “socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics” is explicitly distinguished from Western liberal democracy, which is seen as…

Community of Common Destiny for Mankind

Aug 25, 2021 | Stella Chen
The phrase “community of common destiny for mankind,” or renlei mingyun gongtongti (人类命运共同体), is central to the notion of “Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy” (习近平外交思想), the phrase encompassing Chinese foreign policy in the so-called “New Era.” While the term seems to appeal to a set of shared values and goals as the core of international relations…

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Trapped

Jul 22, 2021 | CMP Staff
Among the many harrowing accounts emerging from the flood in Zhengzhou this week, one story that has gripped Chinese is that of Lu Siwei, an intern at the Freezing Point supplement of China Youth Daily who was trapped for hours with others in a flooded subway tunnel.

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As Disaster Strikes, Xi Takes the Headlines

Jul 21, 2021 | David Bandurski
Raw and jarring social media accounts of flooding in the city of Zhengzhou contrasted with subdued coverage from official Party-state media. But there was another story between the lines — the completely sidelining of Premier Li Keqiang as Xi’s “important instructions” were proclaimed.

Going Global

Seeking China’s New Narratives

Jul 16, 2021 | David Bandurski
The views put forth by a range of Chinese scholars at a recent discussion forum in Beijing hosted by the Center on China and Globalization offer a glimpse into strategic discussions of public diplomacy and propaganda in the country’s think-tank sector.

Going Global

Fudan’s Storm in Budapest

Jul 13, 2021 | Fulop Zsofia
As plans by Shanghai’s Fudan University for a new international campus in Budapest’s ninth district meet staunch local opposition, with fears the project is a Trojan horse, it is unclear what lessons the university’s efforts in Hungary will have for the global future of Chinese higher education.

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