The NYRB China Archive
09.20.22
China: Back to Authoritarianism
from New York Review of Books
Over the past decade, Xi has become a transformational figure on a par with the two other giants of Chinese Communist Party rule: Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. Like them, he has reversed earlier policies, in Xi’s case the relative openness that his...
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02.07.18China Detains Executive Close to Family of Former Prime Minister
New York Times
The authorities in China have detained a wealthy investor who went into business with relatives of the previous prime minister, a sign that the anticorruption campaign initiated five years ago by President Xi Jinping may again be closing in on a...
Media
01.29.16
‘I Don't Want to Think About Activating Change’
from Asia Blog
In 2012, The New York Times published a groundbreaking investigative report showing that the family of Wen Jiabao, China’s then-prime minister, possessed wealth in excess of $2.7 billion. In response, the Chinese government blocked the Times’...
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01.29.14Beijing Forces U.S. Reporter to Leave China
USA Today
“The government is punishing the Times for the content of its coverage...it seems as simple as that.”
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01.28.14China Appears Set to Force Times Reporter to Leave
New York Times
Austin Ramzy is the most recent of such journalists since a critical article about Wen Jiabao and his family was written in 2013.
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03.15.13China’s New President Nods To Public Concerns, But Defends Power At Top
New York Times
“I think that [Xi] is attracted to the idea of a kind of enlightened dictatorship, or neo-authoritarianism,” says magazine editor Li Weidong. “He rejects fundamental political reform, but he wants a cleaner, more efficient government that...
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03.07.13Report On The Work Of The Government
Xinhua
An English version of Wen Jiabao's speech, delivered at the First Session of the Twelfth National People’s Congress on March 5, 2013.
Environment
03.06.13
Environmentalists Unconvinced by Wen Jiabao’s Green Words
from chinadialogue
China’s outgoing premier Wen Jiabao vowed that the government would solve the country’s ever-worsening pollution in his final work report yesterday as he opened the annual session of parliament.But coming amid rising public concern about China’s air...
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01.31.13Hacking with Chinese Characteristics
New Yorker
The New York Times has come under attack by Chinese hackers just at the very moment that the new Chinese leadership, under Xi Jinping, has pledged to root our corruption before it destroys the Party.
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01.31.13Chinese Hackers Infiltrate The New York Times Computers
New York Times
For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees.
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01.03.13China Insists Reporter Was Not Forced to Leave
Voice of America
China is still considering the visa application of a New York Times journalist who the paper says was forced to leave.
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12.31.12Times Reporter in China is Forced to Leave over Visa Issue
New York Times
A correspondent who applied for press accreditation in September left because authorities did not act by Dec. 31.
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12.31.12China Expels Journalist after Wen Revelations
Sydney Morning Herald
An New York Times reporter was expelled from China in apparent retaliation for a report about the Chinese Premier's wealth.
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11.27.12Ten Ways to Investigate Transition in China
New York Times
How can students learn what kind of place China is today? The Learning Network and The New York Times gathered 10 different ways of looking at the country.
Media
11.27.12
Spotted on Weibo: Chinese Leaders Share a Human Moment
An active Beijing-based micro-blogger named Dongdong Wang recently tweeted this image on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter: {vertical_photo_right}At first glance, it doesn’t look like much: Outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao (left) and outgoing...
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11.26.12China's Ping An Eyes Legal Action after NYT Report on Leader's Family Wealth
Reuters
Chinese Insurance giant said recent media coverage contained "serious inaccuracies, facts being distorted and taken out of context."
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11.25.12Lobbying, a Windfall and a Leader’s Family
New York Times
Wen Jiabao's relatives grew extraordinarily wealthy during his leadership, with most wealth coming from Ping An Insurance shares.
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11.20.12Why Is China Censoring a Fake Photo of its Leaders Doing 'Gangnam Style'?
Washington Post
A doctored photo of China's top officials doing a popular South Korean dance went viral 'til Chinese censors pulled it down.
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11.17.12China Says Does Not Want South China Sea Overshadowing Summit
Reuters
China's claim to a stretch of water off its south coast also claimed by neighbors makes it Asia's biggest potential military hot spot.
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11.09.12Two Rising China Leaders Say Open to Wealth Declarations
Reuters
After report on Wen Jiabao's "hidden riches," Guangdong and Shanghai party bosses said officials will eventually have to declare assets.
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10.29.12China's People's Daily Launches Attack on The New York Times
Telegraph
The 1,500 word People's Daily editorial appeared to be a direct response to The New York Times's explosive exposé last week about the $2.7 billion (£1.67 billion) "hidden fortune" of the family of Chinese prime minister Wen...
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10.29.12David Barboza Answers Reader Questions on Reporting in China
New York Times
The Times’s Shanghai bureau chief, David Barboza, reported last week that close relatives of Wen Jiabao, the prime minister of China, hold billions of dollars in hidden riches. Here are his answers to questions from readers prompted by the article.
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10.29.12New York Times Wen Exposé Makes Waves
China Digital Times
David Barboza’s investigation of the wealth built by Wen Jiabao’s extended family has dominated China news since its publication by The New York Times early on Friday. While the basic fact that wealth and power go hand in hand may surprise few—China...
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10.26.12China Condemns NYTimes Wen Jiabao Wealth Story as 'Smear'
BBC
Beijing said the report that Wen's family has "controlled ... at least $2.7bn" had "ulterior motives."
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10.25.12Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader
New York Times
Wen Jiabao's son, daughter, younger brother and brother-in-law have become extraordinarily wealthy during his leadership.
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09.19.12Total Denial and the Will to Forget
China Media Project
Anyone who regularly observes the topsy-turvy world of Chinese politics understands that the past, even the remote past, can exert a powerful influence on the present and future. Major historical anniversaries — like that of the 1989 Tiananmen...
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09.08.12The Ten Grave Problems Facing China
China Story
‘The Ten Grave Problems’ 十大文问题 forms the second section of a three-part feuilleton or ‘pamphlet’ (in its earlier rabble-rousing sense) by Deng Yuwen 邓聿文 titled ‘The Political Legacy of Hu-Wen’ 胡温的政治遗产. It appeared online in&...
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09.03.12Editor at Communist Party Mouthpiece Blasts Leaders
South China Morning Post
A senior editor of Study Times, a Communist Party mouthpiece, has launched a blistering broadside at the country's outgoing leaders, who are about to step down in a once-a-decade shake-up, accusing them of stalling long-overdue political reform...
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10.20.10Rumblings of Reform in Beijing?
from New York Review of Books
Over the past six weeks, China’s thin class of the politically aware has been gripped by a faint hope that maybe, against all odds, some sort of political opening might be in the cards this year. Monday’s conclusion of a key Communist Party meeting...
Sinica Podcast
04.23.10
The Eulogy and the Aftershocks
from Sinica Podcast
Coming twenty-one years after the death of former Party Secretary Hu Yaobang, Premier Wen Jiabao’s surprise eulogy to his former mentor last week was the subject of much discussion among China-watchers worldwide. In today’s episode of Sinica, we...
Reports
06.30.07
China, the Philippines, and U.S. Influence in Asia
Sara Segal-Williams
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
During his January 2007 visit to Manila, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao and Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared that Sino-Philippine relations are experiencing a “golden age of partnership” as the two countries upgrade bilateral...
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10.10.02China’s New Rulers: What They Want
from New York Review of Books
Following are the members of the Chinese Communist Party Politburo Standing Committee, whose election is expected in November 2002, listed by their rank according to protocol, with their main Party and future state positions. Ages are given as of...