By Ilham Tohti, translated by Cindy Carter, published: April 26, 2015   Continued from I. Unemployment and II. Bilingual Education III. Religion Overview                                                        Since the July 2009 ethnic unrest in Xinjiang, religious fervor within China’s Uigh [...] Keep reading »

By Ilham Tohti, translated by Cindy Carter, published: April 23, 2015   Continued from I. Unemployment II. Bilingual Education Overview Besides unemployment, the issue that provokes the most intense reaction within Xinjiang’s Uighur community is the issue of bilingual education. In practice, “bilingual education” in Xinjiang has essenti [...] Keep reading »

By Ilham Tohti, translated by Cindy Carter, published: April 22, 2015   This article, a total of 24,000 words in Chinese, was first posted on the Daxiong Gonghui (“大象公会”) website after the Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti’s arrest in January, 2014. Daxiong Gonghui described the origin of the article in a note: “This document was writ [...] Keep reading »

By Li Yuhui, published: March 25， 2015 Depending on which way you compare, Chinese who demand a Singapore model in China will in all likelihood end up in jail.   In China and elsewhere, people associate Singapore and the late Lee Kuan Yew with the notion of “rule of law without democracy,” “enlightened despotism,” or “modernization [...] Keep reading »

By @WoodenHarp, published: March 22, 2015 An interesting take by an anonymous Chinese tweep.   If the China-US relationship from the early 1970s to the late 1980 was built on national security considerations of the two countries against their common foe the Soviet Union, then the China-US relationship since the 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement an [...] Keep reading »

By Zhang Jing, published: March 19, 2015   We were in Guangdong during the two weeks before the Chinese New Year, and Xiao Bin, an old classmate of ours, suggested that we make time to visit the village of Xiawei (下围村). “Interesting things” had happened there, he told us. This village known for airing its grievances year afte [...] Keep reading »

By Wu Qiang, published: March 15, 2014 Look beyond Chai Jing’s film.   In a time when opinion leaders, known as the “big verified accounts” or Big Vs,  in China have been razed or driven away, who would have thought that one of them would re-activate the topic of smog with an eye-opening combination of a TED-like presentation and do [...] Keep reading »

By Yaxue Cao, published: March 9, 2015 China’s left foot wants to go north, and China’s right foot wants to go south. Both feet have the same goal, and, that is, to maintain the one-party rule.   When I first watched Chai Jing’s Under the Dome a week ago, my response was like everyone else’s: “Bravo!” In early 2013, shortly after t [...] Keep reading »

By Chang Ping, published: March 4, 2015   “Each and every part (of the petroleum industry) is basically a monopoly.” “Under a monopoly there can be no innovation.” “Outsiders can’t break into it at all.” “It is the one and only child. The toys are all his. He plays with them anyway he wants, and he throws them around.” On cam [...] Keep reading »