The China Beat

This year, Human Rights Day (December 10) had a special meaning, since it came as the 60th anniversary of the most famous United Nations doc...

A few weeks ago, it was reported that horseracing had returned to China for the first time since 1949. Though this time, the horses are run...

Gems on China often appear in unexpected places, and we were recently alerted to a handful worth looking into at the Literary Review of Cana...

The biggest China news story of the moment is the issuance of Charter 08, a declaration that was created to mark the 60th anniversary of th...

By Hongmei Li In a piece I did for the Huffington Post on women and the Olympics , I provided a brief overview of the history of ideas about...

China is reducing death sentences but problems remain By Zhang Lijia On July 1 this year, a masked man named Yang Jia forced his way into th...

Regular readers of this blog may think it is a bit redundant for me to do a "Self-promotion Saturday" post about Global Shanghai, ...

By Kate Merkel-Hess Browsing the new book shelf of the local public library this week, I noticed not one but a whole selection of books that...

By Jeff Wasserstrom Americans associate bottom-up challenges to Deng Xiaoping with images of the massive 1989 protests. But those demonstrat...

Ethnic Identity and the 2008 Beijing Olympics By James Leibold With the self-professed slogans of the Green Olympics, High-tech Olympics and...

I think that no matter when I read it, I would have been impressed by Lijia Zhang’s “Socialism is Great!” A Worker’s Memoir of the New China...

As we prepare to mark the 30th anniversary of one turning point in the history of Chinese dissent (the appearance of Wei Jingsheng's ...