In the midst of an ongoing standoff between China and the Philippines over the Huangyan Islands in the South China Sea, Chinese web users make light of the People’s Liberation Army’s supremacy at quilt folding.

During a session of the Guangdong People’s Congress in January 2012, delegate Zhong Keji advocated more positive news, saying she couldn’t stomach constant revelations about Party and government corruption.

In late 2011 China has been seized by an intensified political chill across the board, continuing what appears to be a general tightening trend since August. He Weifang (贺卫方), one of China’s leading proponents of rule of law and press freedom, posted on his Sina Weibo account on December 11: “The ship of reform has […]

Many Chinese have been shocked by the brutality and apparent impunity of local officials and police in Linyi, who have turned the native village of blind activist Chen Guangcheng into a virtual militarized zone.

Li Hao (李浩), a former firefighter who held other government positions in Luoyang, Henan province, was arrested in September 2011 for allegedly keeping women as sex slaves. Local police told the news reporter who broke the story that this information was a matter of “state secrecy.”

Some Chinese have seen independent campaigns by citizens for local people’s congress positions as test cases for the development of democracy in China. But wary local authorities have in many cases moved to nip these candidacies in the bud.

In contemporary China, the Grim Reaper might be better depicted wielding a digger for demolition and cover-up, rather than a scythe.

Here is a montage of images shared on social media on July 29 about the train disaster in Wenzhou.

Coverage online and in traditional media this month exposed a government ruse in Chengdu in which several official plants posing as ordinary citizens have been selected repeatedly in “random selections” for participation in public hearings.

China is increasingly losing its top testers on the university entrance examination to schools in Hong Kong.