Reflections on China’s Future – ChinaGeeks.org
Charles Custer marks the 500th post on the ChinaGeeks blog in a subdued fashion, reflecting on the Jiangxi bomber Qian Mingqi and the widespread anger that has led many Chinese to sympathise with him....
View ArticleThe Machinery of Stability Preservation
The Dui Hua Foundation translates a detailed overview of China’s stability preservation apparatus from an original article in Caijing magazine. [The] detailed portrait of this structure as it exists at...
View ArticleHow Mencius Undermines Tyrants
At The Useless Tree, Sam Crane describes a Mencian alternative to conventional authoritarian stability management. He takes as his starting point an op-ed in The New York Times, “How Tyrants Endure“,...
View ArticleSaving Face in Beijing: Regional Policemen Sent to Intercept Petitioners
A translation at Economic Observer profiles two Beijing-based “interceptors”, employed by local governments to dissuade or otherwise prevent petitioners from registering their grievances. Zhang said...
View ArticleIs Hu Jintao Just Buying Time?
China Media Project analyzes President Hu Jintao’s keynote speech on the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party: The Party’s legacy was described as an unqualified success, a...
View ArticleThe China Model and the Authoritarian State
Suisheng Zhao writes at East Asia Forum about the apparent triumphs and potential pitfalls of the “China Model”: For all its glitter and shimmer, the China model has some clear faultlines that are...
View ArticleFor Light, For Time: Visiting Chen Guangcheng
Controversy over Relativity Media’s shoot near the site of Chen Guangcheng’s house arrest has continued to spread, with reports at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Telegraph, among...
View ArticleChina’s Violent Push for “Stability”
China Media Project translates an article by Fellow Yu Jianrong, originally published in January in Xinhua’s International Herald Leader. Yu argues that the government’s obsession with stability above...
View ArticleLegal Scholar Warns Against Expanded State Power
Professor Jiang Ping of the China University of Political Science and Law warned on Sunday that growing state power threatens people’s rights and the country’s stability. From Caixin online: Though...
View ArticleOrganized Wukan Villagers Plan Next Steps
Villagers in Wukan snubbed the request of local Communist Party officials to discuss a possible resolution to the standoff on Sunday, as they continue to await the release of Xue Jinbo’s body and a...
View ArticleThe Third Wheel: China’s Legal System
In the aftermath of the Wukan protests, Chinese author Yu Hua writes in a New York Times Op-Ed about the uneven balance between China’s grievance process, its legal system and the government’s...
View Article30 Questions for Democracy Opponents
While relatively satisfied with—or relieved by—the results, Beijing viewed recent elections on Taiwan with deep suspicion, even going so far as to order that visitors from the mainland remain...
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Censorship Vault: Guiding Protests Then and Now
Editor’s Note: From the Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions from the archives of the CDT series Directives from the Ministry of Truth (真理部指令). These instructions,...
View ArticleChina’s Land Seizures Drop
At The Age, John Garnaut reports that China is seeing a reduction in violent land grabs as land prices drop and government policy softens: The slowdown in the Chinese economy is producing an unexpected...
View ArticleBlack Friday in Red China
November 11th was Singles Day—in Evan Osnos’ words, the “Chinese answer to Black Friday … an orgy of consumption on a level the world has rarely seen”. At The New Yorker, Osnos contrasts this festival...
View ArticleNational Security Commission Meets for First Time
Following months of speculation since its announcement in last November’s wide-ranging reform blueprint, China’s new National Security Commission met for the first time this week. President Xi Jinping,...
View Article“China Flexes Muscle, Obama Frets Over Its Weakness”
While China often voices suspicion that the U.S. is trying to undermine it, president Barack Obama told NPR in May that “we do not have an interest in stopping China from becoming successful. […] We...
View ArticleCan an Animated Princess Ease Ethnic Tensions in Xinjiang?
As China’s “ultra-tough, unconventional” crackdown on terrorism continues to intensify in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, last weekend eight were executed for their involvement in the deadly October...
View ArticleCDT Bookshelf: Interview with Jeremy Wallace
Jeremy Wallace is assistant professor of political science at Ohio State University and the author of Cities and Stability: Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China (Oxford University...
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