"The internet has become a milestone invention for Chinese politics. But really, this is shameful. The internet has provided a way to supervise officials; however, if our laws (including the constitution) were enforced to the letter, we wouldn't be clutching at straws hoping the internet can solve our problems."
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"With any generation, brainwashing is just like washing vegetables—there are always a few onions that will never be thoroughly cleaned. In the past, some people would take these onions and peel them clean, but following the changes of succeeding generations, are satisfied mind their own business. But...
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Yu Jian discusses how the contemporary Chinese education system is failing to produce individuals with "empathetic hearts", and that the current system is too focused on producing test results instead of quality human beings.
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“Being disappeared” is nothing new in China. But “being confessed, pledged guilty, sentenced, declared innocent and touristed” – which is how a netizens sums up the tale of misfortunes that Zhao Zuohai was subjected to – is very telling of why of the unassuming grammatical particle bei (被) that indicates the passive voice became...
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Ai Weiwei's newest piece, an audio recording over three hours long, is his latest effort to commemorate the students who died in the Sichuan earthquake.
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Are China's youth really that angry?
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