Independent bookstores are in the crosshairs of the CCP’s crackdown on free expression. One bookseller likens his situation to “smuggling drugs instead of selling books.”
“Confessions of a Collegiate ‘Zhengzhou-to-Kaifeng Night-Cyclist’”
A first-person account by one student who joined a night ride to Kaifeng, its origins, and the descent of a fun-filled experience into authoritarian control.
Young Chinese flock to ‘academic pubs’ as space for free expression shrinks
Happy-hour huddles give Chinese students “a place without authority…to speak their mind.”
Brussels’ global infrastructure plan isn’t challenging Beijing — it’s relying on it
EU-funded projects abroad are being built by Chinese companies.
JF Books returns
The rise and fall of an independent bookstore and the fate of civil society in China.
The Mystery of Deng Xiaoping in 1989—could Deng have ended autocracy using autocratic means?
Part Two: Dai Qing on the behind-the-scenes tensions leading up to the Tiananmen Incident and her thoughts on the “’89 Student Movement”.
China’s pension crisis sparks public outrage
With China set to revise its retirement age closer to western norms for the first time in 60 years, heated public reaction returns to deeper issues including unlimited state power.
The Tiananmen Square Incident and the power struggle between Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yu
Iconic investigative reporter Dai Qing offers fresh insights into the Party’s internal struggles in an exclusive interview with Voice of America.
Observing Mao’s Deathday, with Dai Qing
The China Heritage e-journal reflects on the death of Mao and his posthumous career in the company of China’s legendary investigative reporter, Dai Qing.
Dai Qing’s return to the public eye (Part I)
Legendary Chinese investigative reporter Dai Qing on the events of 1989 and her Chiang Mai years.
Dai Qing’s return to the public eye (Part II)
Dai Qing discusses her upcoming release, “Notes on History,” an expose of the CCP’s lies.
China detains prominent artist, citizen journalist as crackdown on dissent escalates
When domestic challenges grow more serious, the dissident community pays the price, human rights advocates say.
Wind’s voice, freedom’s choice
A landmark Chinese bookstore shuttered in Shanghai six years ago has found another life in Washington, D.C.
China denies discharging water downstream as floods wreak havoc in Thailand
Fears that dams cause or exacerbate unseasonal flooding prompt Chinese embassy in Bangkok to issue statement.
Cheap Asian motorcycles are transforming African cities
The rise of motorcycles in Africa is transforming mobility across the continent.
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