It’s funny how things turn out: after 60 years as an officially atheist country, it seems kind of hard to deny that religion is growing in China. That in and of itself doesn’t mean as much as one might think – after all, China has had religion for most of its history and the past [...]
“A small group with ulterior motives”, “the people unaware of the truth”, “evil instigators behind the scenes”…Recently, shortly after large “mass incidents” one can always see the local government hastily determining [the "truth" of the incidents] in this way. Guizhou’s “Weng’an Incident”, Yunnan’s “Menglian Incident”, as well as Gansu’s recent “Longnan Incident”: early on in all these incidents one can see this kind of “determining phenomenon”.
The New Orientalism
Jan 13th, 2009
The Beijing Olympics sure succeeded in attracting Western attentions; one wonders if sometimes Beijing wishes they hadn’t. The Games, and by extension China, drew harsh criticism from many corners of Western society, and while some of the criticisms are certainly fair, the tone of the discourse in some corners heralds the rise of a new [...]
Your Guide to Charter 08
Jan 11th, 2009
Charter ‘08 is a manifesto signed by over three hundred prominent Chinese intellectuals that was released in December of 2008. It caused an immediate stir in the Western media, but didn’t seem to get much response from within China, at least initially. For the curious, we have collected links to relevant reading, news, and speculation.
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