The China Beat

A week (or so) after the anniversary of the "May 35th" events (as some Chinese netizens put it to circumvent automatic blocks on m...

We wrote to the peripatetic Pico Iyer, a Friend of the Blog, to see how June 4th was marked wherever he happened to be this year on the anni...

There have been many efforts during the last month, on this site and elsewhere, to bring history into discussions of the twentieth anniversa...

In this third offering in our series, we limit ourselves to one short post, from a Friend of the Blog who recently moved from Shanghai to Pe...

In our second installment of the series (for part one click here ), we return to Japan (via a follow-up post by James Farrer on coverage in ...

1. Su Yang has never written anything for China Beat , but a few of us get to have lunch with him occasionally as he is a professor (of so...

Last August, we called on contributors and friends of the blog around the world to send in short reports on how the Olympics were being cove...

By Jeremiah Jenne I woke up this morning and took a short walk to a big square. As expected, it was pretty calm in the kind of jittery, str...

This piece is excerpted from the manuscript of Philip J. Cunningham’s forthcoming book, Tiananmen Moon , part of an on-going China Beat fea...

A much shorter version of this piece originally appeared in the New York Times , part of a series there on " Tiananmen Square, 20 Year...

In Taiwan, June 4 marks another anniversary, namely the 185th day of Chen Shuibian's detention without having been convicted of a crime....