Zhao Liang and the South-North Water Diversion Project
China makes an about-face on Libya, we discuss a recent controversy in Beijing's arts community over independent filmmaker Zhao Liang. We also get an on-the-ground update on the state of China's South...
27 Aug 201151min
Suicides, strikes, and labor unrest in China
A spate of suicides leaves ten dead at the Shenzhen campus of Foxconn, the giant electronics manufacturer that makes many of the world's most popular consumer electronics. A rare strike paralyzes prod...
4 Jun 201037min
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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Apr 201035min
