To Reform or Not Reform?—Echoes of the Late Qing Dynasty
A ChinaFile Conversation
on September 5, 2013
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Blood and Money
on September 5, 2013
Of all the investigations and lawsuits affecting financial firms in America, few have wider ramifications than a reported probe by the S.E.C. into whether JPMorgan Chase hired the children of senior Chinese officials in order to help the bank win business.
Rape Trial Casts Spotlight on Offspring of China’s Elite
on September 5, 2013
Like the recent trial of Bo Xilai, the fallen former politician, the case has become an intensely watched and debated parable about the privileges and limited accountability of the Communist Party’s highborn.
The Confessions of a Reactionary
on September 5, 2013
When Xu Zhiyong and I received the “Ten People in Rule of Law in 2003” award at CCTV, neither of us, nor the two sponsors of the event would have thought that, in a few years, the two of us would become “the enemies of the state.”
China Change
on September 5, 2013
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ChinaChange.org is a website devoted to news and commentary related to civil society, rule of law, and rights activities in China. It works with China’s democracy advocates to bring their voices into English and to help the rest of the world understand what people are thinking and doing to effect change in China. On many occasions our reports provided leads for major media outlets, and on others it translated key documents, such as Xu Zhiyong’s The New Citizens’ Movement, long before media and China watchers became aware of them.
The website has its roots in the popular blog Seeing Red in China. Our reports or translations have been linked and/or cited by the New York Times, the Economist, BBC, the Atlantic, and Congressional hearings over the last two years and is collected by Columbia University’s human rights website collections.
China Seeks Western-Style Care Amid Explosion of Elderly
on September 5, 2013
In Confucian tradition, children and grandchildren have cared for the elderly, but with almost 200 million over-60 year olds, and a projection that sees that figure more than doubling in the next 40 years, China faces a deluge of infirm elderly who need alternatives.
China‘s Communist Party Urges Popular Sina Weibo Users to Think of ’National Interests‘
on September 5, 2013
The recent uptick in government pressure on popular online pundits was evident as the Communist Party’s mouthpiece People’s Daily weighed in with a sharply worded commentary demanding users with huge followings act in the “national interest.”
The Confessions of a Reactionary
on September 4, 2013
This article first appeared in Life and Death in China (a multi-volume anthology of fifty-plus witness accounts of Chinese government persecution and thirty-plus essays by experts in human rights in China). When I wrote it [on the evening of June 3, 2013], Xu Zhiyong was under house arrest; when it was published [on August 27, in a translation by ChinaChange.org], he had already moved to the Beijing Third Detention Center.
China’s Crackdown on Social Media: Who Is in Danger?
on September 4, 2013
There is a Chinese proverb that says one must kill a chicken to scare the monkeys, which means to punish someone in order to make an example out of them. That is what many believe happened last Sunday when outspoken investor and Internet celebrity Charles Xue was detained by Beijing police on charges of soliciting prostitution.
China’s Shale Gas Development Goals Just Pipe Dreams
Experts Say Lack of Innovation, Technology, and Capital Mean Targets Likely Unattainable
on September 4, 2013
China wants to reap the benefits of a shale gas revolution similar to the one in the United States, but there are many obstacles to this happening, experts say.
