Chinese politics

The Nobel Prize and the CCP’s Ignoble Response

October 9, 2010

For the CCP, having the first homegrown Chinese Nobel awarded to Charter 08 writer and activist Liu Xiaobo must feel a bit like losing your virginity and waking up the next morning with a scorching case of herpes. [Read More...]

Not exactly how you want your top diplomat to respond to a crisis

July 30, 2010

Apparently Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi [Read More...]

Being friends with China…

July 19, 2010

While I am not a lawyer and have very little [Read More...]

Confessions of a Fen(way)qing or “Everything I know about Chinese nationalism I learned as a Boston sports fan”

April 24, 2010

I want to come clean: I am a Red Sox fenqing. [Read More...]

Noted ‘New Left’ public intellectual Wang Hui accused of plagiarism

March 25, 2010

Professor Wang Hui of Tsinghua University, the [Read More...]

It’s not “Who do you love?” that matters, but “What do you fear the most?”

October 4, 2009

In class two weeks ago we were watching the [Read More...]

Notes from a non-anniversary: The scene from the Square on Thursday morning

June 4, 2009

Half the town on any given day is wearing white. While Wang Dan may have been going for a 'subtle gesture of protest,' it's possible the 'wear white day' idea was a little too subtle. Kind of like: "If you wish to honor the memory of the Tiananmen dead, don't shave your left eyebrow completely off on Thursday morning." [Read More...]