Opening of a campaign against public intellectuals?
Here is an article criticizing public intellectuals from the November 25 People’s Daily after first appearing in Liberation Daily ten days earlier. The South China Morning Post also reported last week...
View ArticlePresident Hu, when do you encourage intellectuals to speak the truth? – Wu...
From Wu Zuolai blog, translated by CDT: President Hu Jintao went to Yunnan to inspect the life of the lower strata and encourage them to tell the truth, which is not only touching but also sad. What is...
View ArticleContemporary Chinese Society’s Ideological Splits – Xu Youyu (徐友渔)
Translated by Michael Huang, from China Elections and Governance: China is currently experiencing a period of rapid social transformation. On the one hand, its social economy has scored tremendous...
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Red Tide
In Time, Jeffrey Wasserstrom reviews the new book by Zha Jianying, Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China, which he says, “covers all the bases” for someone trying to understand...
View ArticleThree Self-Immolations Amid Crackdown, Debate
Three Tibetan self-immolations have taken place in recent days, according to exile media, amid vigorous discussion of the protests and a continued crackdown by Chinese authorities. From...
View ArticleJonathan Spence: As Luck Would Have It
Kate Whitehead at South China Morning Post gives a detailed profile of Jonathan Spence, the prominent China scholar and Yale history professor: The way Spence tells his life story, luck played a big...
View ArticleIs HK an Unsafe Harbor for Academic Freedom?
At Times Higher Education, David Matthews looks at politically motivated press attacks against Hong Kong academics as well as Beijing’s growing interference in university governance that are...
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Person of the Week: Qiao Mu
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short biographies of public intellectuals, cartoonists, human rights activists, and other people pushing for change in China. The...
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Person of the Week: Liu Xia
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short biographies of public intellectuals, cartoonists, human rights activists, and other people pushing for change in China. The...
View ArticleTranslation: Speaking of Zhang Yunfan…
Xi Jinping’s ongoing crackdown on civil society and parallel drive to reinforce ideological orthodoxy has affected rights lawyers and activists, academics, and journalists, among others. While the vast...
View ArticleCCP Launches Patriotic Education for Intellectuals
The Chinese Communist Party has launched a new campaign aimed at “enhancing patriotism” among the country’s intellectuals. Academics are urged to toe the party line in the latest move to further...
View ArticleZheng Yefu: “For Whom is the Country Being Defended?”
Retired Peking University sociology professor Zheng Yefu is known for his outspoken political views. In a recent essay that went viral on Chinese social media, Zheng argues that the Party’s attempts to...
View ArticleTranslation: “Social Death by Imperial Order”
In July 2019, the philosopher and popular writer Byron Chen Chun went to Hong Kong to observe protests against proposed amendments to the Hong Kong extradition law which raised serious concerns that...
View ArticleChina’s New Left Thinkers Embrace Nationalism And Xi
While various manifestations of China’s deepening authoritarianism have been well documented, the ideological frameworks underpinning it have tended not to receive as much attention as the thinking of...
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Translation: One Nationalist Fang Fang Hater’s “Coming of Age”
One of Fang Fang’s most outspoken detractors had a change of heart when those she had maligned came to her aid. Li Dan, a 31-year-old woman from Sichuan, used to attack Fang Fang and her supporters...
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