The Cost of Cleaning China’s Filthy Air? About $817 Billion, One Official Says
Authorities rush out pledges and promises as another choking winter looms
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Chinese Official Pigs Out at Lavish Banquet, Disses Countrymen, Gets Fired
Secretly filmed video of local party boss eating lobster and swigging pricey booze goes viral
China’s Emerging Civil Society Prompts Fresh Media Crackdowns
Together with his neighbors, journalist Chen Baocheng had been involved in a long-running land-confiscation dispute with the local authorities in Pingdu, a city of about 1.3 million people in the northeastern Chinese province of …
Crackdowns and Executions Provoke Shock and Outrage in China’s Business Community
When China’s biggest real-estate developer speaks up on Sina Weibo, the nation’s Twitter-like social media service, people listen. On July 14, Wang Shi, the founder of property firm China Vanke, used his account to bemoan how …
At Prestigious Peking University, a Debate Over the ‘Chinese Dream’
Last June, China’s leader Xi Jinping visited Peking University, the country’s premier academic institution. Addressing students from the school of archaeology and museology, Xi, who was then China’s Vice President, gave a
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Sex, Lies and Photoshop: China’s Racy-Photo Scandals
China wouldn’t be China without the officious slogans that plaster every other wall and railing, educating citizens on the latest government policy or crackdown. But the banners and billboards that began appearing in March all over Shuangfeng, a rural county in central China’s Hunan province, bore exhortations more curious than most. …