How 2018 chilled China’s civic engagement and stifled environmental activism.
From Red Guard to “blue hair”
Why Leftists destroy womanhood.
The wheel of misfortune: victims, victimhood, and victimization
A healthy society must acknowledge suffering without weaponizing it.
Post-Plenum anti-CCP banners appear in Beijing
Another high-profile banner protest unfurls in China’s capital as the CCP’s Fourth Plenary Session wraps up.
Archiving RTHK
A U.S. NGO rescues critical programming content targeted by Hong Kong’s draconian National Security Law.
Yang Xiaokai’s “Captive Spirits”
A clandestine network of Mao-era dissidents, “numerous as ox hairs,” shatter myths of Communist ideological unity while anchoring modern China’s freedom struggles in this unbroken lineage of defiance.
China reacts to Israel-Iran war: compilation
An epic round-up of views from inside China of the Israel-Iran conflict.
Tiananmen Papers, Charter 08 and Liu Xiaobo
The activism and career of Perry Link—the translator-in-chief of China’s dissident movement.
A woman warrior who defended memory
A tribute to the remarkable He Fengming, a survivor of China’s 1957 Anti-Rightist Campaign, whose memoir serves as an enduring testament to historical truth and the fragility of humanity under authoritarian rule.
What we talk about when we talk about “sensitivity”
The sensitivity of political reform in China is undeniable but using it to justify inaction is indefensible: an essay from China Unofficial Archives.
Dai Qing’s revised “Deng Xiaoping in 1989”
In honour of June Fourth, we release excerpts from the second revised edition of “Deng Xiaoping in 1989” by investigative journalist Dai Qing—a work that combats the historical erasure of the Tiananmen crisis.
Pro-democracy banners unfurled at an overpass in China
Images shared via social media are reminiscent of ‘Bridge Man’ in Beijing who inspired the 2022 White Paper protests.
Censored modern Chinese history resurfaces in online archive
An interview with China historian Ian Johnson, founder of the China Unofficial Archives.
The unsilenced will eventually have their say
Xiang Chengjian, a survivor of totalitarianism and a founding member of China’s legendary “Spark,” provides a poignant and profound account of his experiences.
China’s AI boom depends on an army of exploited student interns
As part of China’s digital underclass, vocational school students work as data annotators—for low pay and few future prospects.
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