The involvement of Chinese nationals in Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine received widespread media attention earlier this year. This included an extended interview by Chinese journalist Chai Jing ...

Last month, Southern Weekly reported on a policy at some hospitals in Shanxi requiring that ADHD patients get a "Class 1 ...

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Two recent WeChat posts express concern about mounting official interference in 相声 xiàngsheng, the traditional northern-Chinese form of fast-paced stage comedy known in English as crosstalk. These ...

This Communist Party slogan was heavily used during the Cultural Revolution, an era in which citizens were incentivized to spy on and even falsely accuse family and neighbors of being disloyal to ...

Ai Xiaoming is a documentary filmmaker, author, and women's rights activist. Ai has frequently collaborated with documentary filmmaker Hu Jie. She is professor emerita of literature and women's ...

Code for June 4, 1989, the date of the crackdown on pro-democracy protests around Tiananmen Square. (The military operation began late on the night of June 3.) Ordinarily the event is referred to as ...

Chai Jing is the impassioned journalist known for her viral self-funded documentary on air pollution, "Under the Dome" (Qióngdǐng zhīxià 穹顶之下). Co-released online in February 2015 by Youku and ...

在她口中，清朝不是中国历史，甚至连华伦天奴的祖上都是满清贵族。最离谱的是，她把“满汉全席”硬生生解读成了“吃汉人”。这种放在地摊文学里都嫌味儿冲的阴谋论，却在短视频里振振有词。

如果你能接受这种硬核设定，接受花五星级的钱吃路边摊的苦，那么这趟旅程或许依然值得。而第一批免签去俄罗斯的人，其实是在用自己的肉身，去测试这个巨大的信息差。他们支付了昂贵的学费，买回了些真实的教训，却也亲眼看到了这个世界折叠后的另一面。

索隐派流行，根本原因是社会缺乏正常表达的空间。人们默认作者不能正常说真话，作者的真实思想真实情感只能通过非常隐晦的方式传递......所有诞生于不允许自由表达时代的作品，都有可能在后世遭遇被“索隐”的命运，《红楼梦》不是个案。