China The end of funerals in China? October 30, 2019 0 Image Credit: Yu Rong Cun Cemetery by David Schroeter/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-ND 2.0. Written by Andrew B. Kipnis. An official in charge of arranging funerals…
China One Country, Three Systems and the Limits on Freedom in Today’s PRC November 10, 2017 0 Written by Jeffrey Wasserstrom. When journalists interviewed me during the lead-up to the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th Congress, some grew frustrated by my unwillingness to make…
China Developments in Chinese Media Censorship November 8, 2017 0 Written by Jonathan Hassid. Now that Xi Jinping has been newly inaugurated to his second term as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)…
China New (and Not So New) Trends in China’s Online Censorship November 7, 2017 1 Written by Rongbin Han. Scholars who study Internet politics in China have long recognized two important features of the state censorship system. First, it is…
China The Soft Power of Chinese Censorship November 6, 2017 0 Written by Christopher Balding. Global universities and publishers must seriously consider their response to Chinese censorship demands. A newly emboldened and politically regressive China cracking…
Education The paradox at the heart of China’s quest to rid universities of Western values March 17, 2015 0 Written by Wu Bin. Chinese universities are gripped in a debate about whether students should be exposed to “Western values”. A campaign was ignited in…
Internet A New Internet World, A Neo-Authoritarian Model of Internet Governance November 18, 2013 1 Written by Min Jiang. Following the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held in Beijing from November…
International Relations The Mass-Media Logic behind China’s Internet Controls November 11, 2013 2 Written by Florian Schneider. How the Chinese government is applying 20th Century thinking to 21st Century technology. One of the most popular technology myths to…
Internet The Great Fearwall of China November 3, 2013 3 Written by Jonathan Benney. The term “Great Firewall”, intended to convey that China’s Internet is surrounded in its entirety by a border which restricts outside…
