Sep 24, 2024 · ChinaFile is an online magazine publishing, showcasing, and contributing to the best reporting and commentary on China. We seek to both meet and expand the appetites of expert and non-expert audiences who want to better understand China and to provide them with a visually stimulating, well-designed platform on which they can encounter voices and topics that tend to be out of

Nov 13, 2024 · In late October, Radio Free Asia reported that Chinese civil rights advocate and lawyer Xu Zhiyong, who is serving a 14-year sentence for state subversion, has been hunger striking to protest the conditions of his incarceration. Xu’s imprisonment stems from his vision for China’s future. At a moment when his situation seems particularly dire, …

Nov 26, 2024 · Paul French is a prolific author of books on pre-revolutionary 20th Century China and the stories of foreigners who lived and worked there, including the bestselling true-crime history, Midnight in Peking.His work is based on traditional historical research, his own experiences living in Shanghai for around two decades, and correspondence and conversations with people who lived in China, and ...

Dec 13, 2024 · Shirley Xinyi Cai is a researcher in comparative politics and political theory, pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science at McGill University. One of her ongoing projects is about the caili (彩礼, i.e. bride price or betrothal gift), a deep-rooted marriage custom that calls on the family of the groom-to-be to pay a sum of money to the bride’s family.

Mar 6, 2023 · Ten years ago, in April 2013, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) promulgated a critical directive: its “Communiqué on the Current State of the Ideological Sphere.” The document, issued by the CCP’s General Office and not intended for public distribution, enumerated seven “false ideological trends, positions, and activities” that posed a …

May 22, 2023 · Bu Mingbai Podcast (不明白) was co-founded by The New York Times columnist Li Yuan and Chinese journalists working for Western media organizations in May 2022. The literal translation of the Chinese name is “I Don’t Understand.” The podcast aims to provide uncensored interviews with experts and ordinary Chinese about current affairs in China.

Sep 25, 2024 · Kevin Xu is the founder of Interconnected Capital, a hedge fund that invests in the digital picks and shovels of the global AI economy. He also writes the Interconnected newsletter, a bilingual English/Chinese newsletter on tech, business, and geopolitics. His insight has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the …

Dec 30, 2024 · An unexpected development has taken place in the seven-decades-long dispute between the Tibetan exile leadership and China’s government. In early July, for the first time since 2010, Chinese authorities reportedly held direct talks with the exile Tibetan political leadership, based in Dharamsala, India. The meeting in July followed …

Sep 27, 2024 · Mandarin lessons sponsored by the Chinese government are held every Tuesday and Thursday inside Southeast Asia’s largest mosque, Masjid Istiqlal, in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia.The teachers and course materials for the Mandarin lessons are provided free of charge by the Confucius Institute at Universitas Al Azhar Indonesia, a university that seeks to “apply universal Islamic values ...

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