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Deleted Posts on the Beijing Bomb
The detonation of a bomb this afternoon outside the US Embassy in Beijing was understandably the...
Read MoreUnderstanding China requires an understanding of its unique and changing vocabularies, from stiff Party discourse to innovative internet slang.
The detonation of a bomb this afternoon outside the US Embassy in Beijing was understandably the...
Read MoreThe term “second-generation reds,” or hong er’dai (红二代), refers to Chinese who born in the 1960s and early 1970s (before the end of the Cultural Revolution) and were weaned on the politics and ideology of Mao...
Read MoreThis term first appeared in official Party criticisms of former Party secretary Zhao Ziyang...
Read MoreIn the weeks following a speech on ideology given by Chinese President Xi Jinping in August 2013,...
Read MoreThe Chinese term guan er’dai (官二代) could be translated numerous ways into English, and possibilities might include “sons and daughters of government officials” or “official offspring.” Whatever the...
Read MoreInternet controls are handled in China by a dizzying array of party and government bodies. Most important are the CCP’s Central Propaganda Department, the supreme body enforcing “propaganda discipline” (or the...
Read MoreOn January 11 this year, dissident Chinese writer Yu Jie (余杰) arrived in the United States with...
Read MoreTwo decades of economic growth have certainly made China richer. But uneven growth and lagging political reforms have also contributed to a sharp widening of the gap between rich and poor in the country. As social gaps grow more...
Read MoreA disastrous high-speed train collision in the city of Wenzhou on July 23, 2011, which killed at least 39 people and injured more than 200 others, capped with tragedy two weeks of rising doubts in China about the safety of the...
Read MoreAs news broke on April 3, 2011, that artist and activist Ai Weiwei (艾未未) had been detained in Beijing, Chinese web censors apparently moved to scrub references to Ai from popular microblog platforms such as Sina Weibo and QQ...
Read MoreIn the wake of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which resulted in severe damage to a nuclear power plant, rumors spread in China of possibly disastrous radiation fallout impacting China. Believing that...
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