The growing vulnerability of Xi Jinping’s strongman rule.
A dissident in Europe is enraging Beijing. Now Chinese police are coming for his social media followers
Followers of an X account that circulates news censored in China find themselves in hot tea for ‘thought crime’.
A year on: remembering Dr. Jiang Yanyong, the truth-teller who saved lives
A celebration of Dr. Jiang Yanyong (蒋彦永), China’s “honest doctor,” who first became known to the world for exposing a government cover-up during the SARS crisis of 2003.
How one woman duped China’s censorship machine
Using the persona of an Iranian protester to circulate content, a writer manages to hoodwink China’s internet censors for weeks. Netizens notice how familiar the depiction of state control sounds.
Forced labour from North Korea is tainting the world’s seafood supply
China officially denies these workers are in the country, but their presence is an open secret. An investigation reveals 15 seafood processing plants have used over 1,000 North Korean workers since 2017.
Alive and kicking
When an independent journalist in China went looking for Spark, she found the force of creation.
Hutong, DJ bar, youth, and unexpected politics: the detained “Blank Paper” protesters of Beijing
An intimate look at the youth detained for their first public moment in the face of systematic suppression.
Three Gorges migrants through the lens of Li Feng
The creation of China’s Three Gorges Dam buried the past and overturned the lives of millions. Tracking these changes across the years: one of the country’s greatest photographers.
After eight years in prison, lawyer Xia Lin approaches his release
Chinese human rights lawyer, Xia Lin, was arrested one year prior to Xi Jinping’s “709 Crackdown” on lawyers and human rights activists in 2015. What has Xia Lin’s time in prison looked […]
Peach blossoms on the back, hometown underwater
A photographer captures 30 decades of life in upheaval for Three Gorges migrants and one moment, in particular, that stirred an entire nation.
Ten days in Xi’an
Probe International Exclusive: The extraordinary account by acclaimed independent investigative journalist, Jiang Xue, detailing the unprecedented lockdown of the city of Xi’an, in central China’s Shaanxi Province, is now available to read […]
An appeal to the Chinese government – let Guo Feixiong see his wife
Premier Li Keqiang is urged to lift the travel ban on Chinese rights activist Guo Feixiong as his wife battles end-stage cancer in the United States.
Chinese civil rights activists accused of planning “colour revolution” to subvert state
English-language Chinese news outlet, China Change, takes an in-depth look at the (lack of) evidence against civil rights activists Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi, and how concepts like a “citizen’s movement” – […]
Dai Qing’s “Green Ideas”
This summer, Dai Qing, the legendary Chinese investigative journalist, Probe International Fellow and one of China’s most iconic environmental voices will join the Penguin Classics canon in a new series on the […]
Chinese writer and PEN America honoree marks one year in detention
“At every turn, the government has chosen to double-down on repression, rather than to permit Xu [Zhiyong] and [partner] Li [Qiaochu] the basic human right to express themselves freely.” PEN America calls […]
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