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.
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.
Li Rui’s diary and Tiananmen Square
A rare insider account of China’s corridors of power and a unique and brave journey through the history of modern China.
China releases tortured rights lawyer Chang Weiping
Lawyer is sent back to his place of household registration after serving 3 1/2 years for ‘subversion.’
Book launch: Deng Xiaoping in 1989 (revised edition)
This Friday, June 28, New York publisher Bouden House will launch its new edition of Deng Xiaoping in 1989 by the iconic Chinese investigative reporter, Dai Qing.
Bookstores become sites of subtle protest against Xi Jinping
The placement of books published by President Xi Jinping alongside titles that seem to be making a political point continue to titillate.
As China’s internet disappears, ‘We lose parts of our collective memory’
The number of Chinese websites is shrinking and posts are being removed and censored, stoking fears about what happens when history is erased.
June Fourth 2024 — Dai Qing, a former person who refused to be silenced
Reporter, novelist and China’s first post-Mao historical investigative journalist, Dai Qing continues her quest to reveal China to itself.
‘China’s people are increasingly aware of human rights’
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.
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