Drawing the News: Tigers and Flies
In this week’s edition of Drawing the News, Chinese political cartoonists take on the country’s longest-serving rubber stamper, Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, and the ongoing Chongqing sex...
View ArticleRiver Crab Archive: Citizens Bought, Citizens Sold
When something disappears from the Internet in China, netizens joke that it has been “river-crabbed,” a play on the euphemism “harmonized.” The River Crab Archive is a collection of blog post titles,...
View ArticleYang Hengjun: History’s Most Solemn “Two Sessions”
Once an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yang Hengjun is a commentator and novelist living now living in Sydney. Yang promotes political reform in China, though he often writes about it in...
View ArticleVR “Whole-Process People’s Democracy” Experience Prompts Online Mockery
Hangzhou’s Center for the Practice of Whole-Process People’s Democracy has become the butt of online jokes about China’s lack of democracy. Whole-process people’s democracy is Party-speak for the...
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