Dissident Chen Sure 1-Party China Will Change
on January 29, 2013
“It’s an inevitability of history, whether the party likes it or not,” Chen said. “Once the people are waking up, change is coming for sure.”
China’s Pollution: The Birth Defect Angle
on January 29, 2013
There are persistent rumors that the horrendous pollution in China has led to a huge increase such births in China.
Director Zhang Yuan, Still Kicking
on January 29, 2013
Zhang Yuan, a veteran rebel among Chinese filmmakers, recently came to New York for the premiere of his film Beijing Flickers at the Global Lens 2013 series at the Museum of Modern Art. Ever since Mama, his 1990 debut about a mother and her mentally challenged son—widely regarded as the first independent film in China—Zhang’s films have blurred the line between fact and fiction.
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Cleaning Up China’s Secret Police Sleuthing
on January 28, 2013
Wiretapping, email hacking, cell phone tracking, and secret videotaping are just a few of the cloak-and-dagger techniques long employed by police in the course of criminal investigations in China.
But now, for the first time, new rules say that police officers applying for permission to employ these so-called “technological investigation measures” will be subject to “rigorous” reviews, without saying by whom.
Dead-end Trail to Bo’s Trial in China’s South
on January 28, 2013
China scotched reports that disgraced politician Bo Xilai’s much anticipated trial would open on Monday, amid chaotic scenes at a courthouse packed with expectant journalists in the south of the country.
Xi Jinping’s Opposition to Political Reforms Laid out in Leaked Internal Speech
on January 28, 2013
Beijing-based writer Gao Yu’s writing on a speech Xi Jinping made during his “southern tour” in December, suggests Xi, who blames those not “man enough” to do what had to be done to save the Soviet Communist Party from itself, has even less intention of initiating political reforms--namely, nationalisation of the military--than Hu Jintao did when he took over as chairman of the Central Military Committee in 2004.
Beijing Observation: Xi Jinping the Man
on January 28, 2013
Xi Jinping’s “new southern tour speech,” made in December, began circulating last week in the party. It reads like a confirmation of Harvard Professor Roderick MacFarquhar’s prediction that the likelihood of the Chinese Communist Party reforming from within was very small, and reform would probably only be triggered by external, large-scale and eruptive events.
China’s Rigid Stability – Yu Jianrong analyses a predicament
on January 28, 2013
Foreign Policy named Yu Jianrong one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers and described the famous scholar who works in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing as a ‘rare Chinese academic who has taken up the challenge of defining how exactly China could change course’. In his recent writings, Yu reflects both upon social stability and reform – two equally beloved concepts of the Chinese party-state.
Garden of Lost Children
on January 26, 2013
It started with a baby that was left in the doorway of a hospital bathroom. Yuan Lihai took in the girl with a cleft lip while working at a Henan province hospital in 1989. At the department of gynecology and obstetrics, she was paid 20 yuan for every infant she buried. This was also where she discovered the second child she would adopt—a baby boy who had supposedly died after induced labor. When she went to bury the infant, she discovered he was breathing.
