2024年12月30日 · 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 a year or more of back …

2024年9月26日 · In mid-2020, despite the COVID pandemic and years of tightening space for civil society, China’s LGBTQ movement was still making strides. While most pride celebrations around the world were canceled due to the pandemic, Shanghai Pride held nine days of festivities, including a “Pride Run” and “Pride Job Fair.”News that a transgender woman had successfully …

2024年11月26日 · 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 …

2024年11月13日 · 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, it’s worth tracing how …

2024年11月12日 · Every morning, I crossed a stretch of railway tracks on the way to my school. The tracks lay less than a hundred meters from the school gate, and a train often appeared in the late afternoon just as we were discharged. Sometimes it was a freight train piled high with lumber or coal. It would be gliding along, clink clank, clink clank, at low speed because it was getting …

2016年7月7日 · From their website:China Digital Times (CDT) is an independent, bilingual media organization that brings uncensored news and online voices from China to the world.We achieve this through:Filtering and aggregating news from English-language media and placing it in a broader social and political context;Amplifying the voices of Chinese citizens through …

This October 16 marks the 60th anniversary of the testing of the first Chinese nuclear bomb. When my friends and I coiled up our jump ropes and returned to class, we learned inspirational tales about the earliest generation of Chinese nuclear scientists, who left the comfort of home for the northwestern frontier and toiled in anonymity to forge the country’s atomic shield.

2024年6月6日 · Charles Hutzler is a journalist covering China and its complex relations with the U.S. Now based in Washington, D.C., he spent 25 years as a reporter in China based in Beijing, covering politics, the economy, trade, and other issues for The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press. He oversaw large teams of reporters as China Bureau Chief for both the …

2024年11月6日 · The film ‘Nikah,’ set in China’s Uyghur region in 2017, spans the months between two weddings. It follows Dilber, a young woman approaching a crossroads amid the Chinese government’s surveilling and detaining of members of her community. As even her most personal decisions become suddenly political, Dilber must struggle with the tension between …

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