Critical media, foreign and domestic
Is the "Western media" biased in its reporting about China? What are the frames and narratives that inform the Anglophone media's understanding of the county, and what are the misunderstandings about ...
28 Touko 201046min
Mao's legacy and foreign self-censorship
Videos of lectures by Tengfei Yuan, a history teacher in a middle school in Beijing, recently went viral on the internet. While his charismatic and humorous teaching style attracts public attention an...
21 Touko 201047min
Schoolyard violence with Chinese characterisitcs
Despite efforts to downplay the story in the face of the Shanghai Expo, news of a recent wave of copycat killings has spread quickly through China, driven in part by the surprising revelation that man...
15 Touko 201031min
Dimensions of China's soft power
Sponsored by the government organization Hanban, the Confucius Institute has been successfully promoting the learning of Chinese Language internationally. However, it recently inspired a lot of resist...
7 Touko 201040min
Huang Guangyu trial and real estate dilemma
Huang Guangyu, the founder of home electronics chain GOME, was China’s richest man, with a fortune of over 6 billion dollars in 2006, according to Forbes. However, the multi-billionaire was detained i...
1 Touko 201047min
The eulogy and the aftershocks
On April 15, 2010, on the 21st anniversary of former Party Secretary Hu Yaobang’s death, Premier Wen Jiabao published an essay to eulogize his former mentor in the People’s Daily. On April 15, 1989, t...
23 Huhti 201035min
China's gadflies and the mine miracle
This week, Kaiser Kuo hosts a discussion about China's best-known gadflies: writer and auto racer Han Han, and artist-cum-activist Ai Weiwei. The former writes one of the most popular blogs in China w...
16 Huhti 201044min
Iran and the vaccination scandal
While Western countries prepare for tougher sanctions at the UN against Iran regarding its nuclear development, China is reluctant to impose any further sanctions, intensifying the tension between Bei...
9 Huhti 201035min
