The Guo Degang scandal and China's bizarre fixation on squeaky-clean celebrities.
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The Guo Degang scandal and China's bizarre fixation on squeaky-clean celebrities.
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Some compelling homemade videos of the Jilin floods cause us to speculate about what the increased prevalence of this kind of video might do for journalism and information freedom within China's authoritarian system.
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They sure know how to stir up trouble over at the Economic Observer. Home to Wang Keqin, the investigative reporter who has uncovered a wide variety of scandals (most recently, the tainted vaccines in Shaanxi), police in Zhejiang recently announced they're seeking another Economic Observer reporter (Qiu Ziming) who is accused of...
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The parents of children who were victims of tainted vaccines continued their attempts to get an explanation out of the Ministry of Health. Instead, they were brutally beaten and are still being held in a police station and denied medical treatment.
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If you’re wondering why Han Han’s blog hasn’t updated in nearly a month, here’s the probable reason. His literary magazine, 《独唱团》was recently released. You may not be aware of this because, according to this report quoted in the China Digital Times1, the media is not allowed to report on it or interview people about...
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Sohu has stepped up their blog policing measures significantly, according to lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan, whose blog has been deleted multiple times in the past several days.
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Southern Weekend reports the reappearance of more melamine-tainted milk. The culprits, Dongyuan Dairy Products, have apparently been distributing the yet-to-be-destroyed raw materials from the 2008 incident.
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Even as Evan Osnos was writing about the beating of Fang Xuanchang, an editor at Caijing magazine, renowned investigative journalist Wang Keqin was posting on his blog about the beating of another Chinese journalist, this time a CCTV reporter in Shanxi province.
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"In education, recruitment, employment and various other sectors, the pattern of power-retention by the powerful is solidifying, yet the rights of the lower classes often suffer encroachment. The hardening of the hierarchy is right before our eyes. The channel of upward mobility for the lower classes is narrowing by the day."
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A quick-and-dirty look at the media treatment of the Urumqi Riots Anniversary.
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