As the 25th anniversary of the June Fourth crackdown approaches, CMP publishes the 2012 Louis Green Lecture by Xu Youyu, a leading reform intellectual arrested earlier this month. In this series, Xu explores the roots of Chinese thought in the post-Mao period.

As the environment for traditional media in China tightens, veteran journalists are seeking new ways to do, and to fund, groundbreaking multimedia projects.

As the New York Times and Bloomberg wait to see whether visas for their journalists in China will come through, a hardline piece from a Chinese pundit argues there’s no real freedom of the press in the U.S. anyhow.

Here’s our rundown of language related to media and culture in the “Decision” emerging from the CCP’s recent Third Plenum. The one thing that leaves no doubt: control will remain the overriding priority.

Xi Jinping openly praises the “Fengqiao experience,” an idea steeped in Maoist notions of class struggle. What does this mean?

Our translation of a piece in China Youth Daily that criticizes the use of the word “struggle,” underscoring the atmosphere of anxiety that surrounds this word as it makes its a

In a statement released today, members of the New Citizen’s Movement launched by lawyer Xu Zhiyong object to his detention and call for greater attention to his case.

A bold editorial from Investor Journal, now removed from websites but circulating on social media, calls Xi Jinping’s colors, saying he’s not a reformer with new ideas but a blast from China’s CCP past.

Today, April 15, marks the anniversary of the death the pro-reform figure Hu Yaobang. Web users have marked the anniversary with their own online tributes.