Politics

A discussion of the complacency that sets in when it comes to coal mining in China, where accidents are common and outrage rage. We translate a piece by Zhao Shilong on the subject and then attempt to kick off a deeper discussion.
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Mindy Zhang translates an email from a professor detailing his opinions on the "Tibet issue".
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“I have no faith in the Party,” Ms. Liu told me. “I don’t believe in anything in the history textbooks. It’s all lies.” This would hardly be remarkable, except that Ms. Liu is herself a Party member, and has been for several years.
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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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If China wants to win the PR war for the hearts of the West, it needs to focus on the people, not the politicians, argues a Southern Weekend op-ed piece. We agree with the idea, but not so much with his execution.
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The cases of two corrupt officials who used their clout to make themselves giants in the literary world illustrates how easy it can be to manipulate literary circles when everything is controlled by the Party.
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A group of prominent Chinese intellectuals calls for citizens to take a daring pledge to push China more swiftly towards the rule of law.
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Liu Xiaobo has been moved from a Beijing holding prison, where he was kept for far too long, to a Liaoning prison. But why Liaoning?
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Chinese netizens and overseas Chinese thoughts on an important anniversary, as seen on Twitter, 12-1 AM.
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Censoring Han Han's blog sends millions onto the internet in search of "deleted" material -- this is not what the government wants.
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