In May 2012, “100 poets, artists and calligraphers” from all over the country assembled in Hubei to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s Yan’an speeches on arts and literature. In this cartoon, artist Kuang Biao paints them all as cowards.
In this cartoon, artist Kuang Biao depicts the Global Times newspaper as a craven creature whose mind knows only obedience to its Communist Party masters.
This cartoon by artist Kuang Biao responds to recent news reports alleging that high levels of hormones and antibiotics are being used on Chinese milk cows.
In this brutally honest cartoon, drawn for the occasion of the 40th birthday of blind activist and lawyer Chen Guangcheng, artist Kuang Biao lays bare the ugliness of political repression.
This cartoon, posted by artist Kuang Biao (邝飚) to his blog at QQ.com, is a nuanced criticism of China’s current politics as encompassed by the political buzzword “socialism with Chinese characteristics.”
Full of layered meanings, this cartoon by Kuang Biao characterizes the reckless battle of supremacy in China between the children of the rich and the children of the powerful.
As press controls were ramped up in China on dissident Liu Xiaobo winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Chinese responses were tough to find. But this cartoon from artist Kuang Biao says it all.
The following commentary, written by former CMP fellow Chang Ping (长平), was published in Chinese last week by Deutsche Welle. We offer our translation here to help shed light on China’s recent move to combine its three major state-run broadcast networks into a single super-network to be called, in its external dimension, “Voice of China.” […]
Following a report in December 2013 by the Beijing News about poor migrants living in underground wells in the capital’s Chaoyang District because they could not afford housing there, local authorities sent teams to seal the well entrances with concrete.
Two editorials in Party newspapers call on Chinese leaders to be tougher in the face of tumult on the internet.
