Police and media silence after a car plowed into a large crowd of students and parents near an elementary school in the city of Shiyan, Hubei province, has angered many Chinese netizens. Video shared ...

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Two posts from nationalist pundit and former Global Times Editor-in-Chief Hu Xijin criticizing what he describes as a “collective silence” on Chinese social media have sparked intense discussion on ...

This Communist Party slogan was heavily used during the Cultural Revolution, an era in which citizens were incentivized to spy on and even falsely accuse family and neighbors of being disloyal to ...

Chai Jing is the impassioned journalist known for her viral self-funded documentary on air pollution, "Under the Dome" (Qióngdǐng zhīxià 穹顶之下). Co-released online in February 2015 by Youku and ...

Code for June 4, 1989, the date of the crackdown on pro-democracy protests around Tiananmen Square. (The military operation began late on the night of June 3.) Ordinarily the event is referred to as ...

Ermeiyaoxiaodao (@二枚腰小道): GFW (Great Firewall of China) has blocked all Google services, including Google Scholar, which is essential to research. If you think this is unacceptable, we request that ...

Ai Xiaoming is a documentary filmmaker, author, and women's rights activist. Ai has frequently collaborated with documentary filmmaker Hu Jie. She is professor emerita of literature and women's ...

10月25日，中共20届四中全会闭幕不久，北京三里屯街头有抗议者在一栋建筑上挂起了两面横幅：“共产党的本质是反人类的邪教，它们必将给中国带来无尽的灾难”、“开放党禁，自由组党，自由竞争，自由选择，建立自由，人性，法治的新中国。”两则横幅末尾均有署名“ ...

家在河南周口的张梅种了50亩玉米。几个月前，为了抗旱，她曾与丈夫没日没夜地到玉米地里浇水，“浇完这头浇那头，很多人晚上都搁地里不回家。”从大旱中救活的玉米，到了秋收时，却被连日的阴雨淹了。玉米泡在地里，机器进不去，只能人工收。不少农民走进地里，用盆、 ...

这幅画我很喜欢，这是她心中的书店色彩。有一次苏州的藏书家王道兄来到书店，他看到这幅画，还以为是绿茶老师画的。我告诉他，“这是另外一个画家的作品。” ...