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The Party and its promises
As the debate over constitutionalism rages inside China, the China Media Project is pleased to announced the publication (or re-publication) of Heralds of History (历史的先声), a book that documents the...
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CMP fellow Pu Zhiqiang held by police
Prominent rights defense lawyer and China Media Project fellow Pu Zhiqiang (浦志强) was escorted from his home by Beijing police in the early hours of May 5 after taking part in a seminar commemorating...
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A letter to Beijing police
The following open letter addressed to officials and officers in the Beijing Public Security Bureau was written by former CMP fellow Zhai Minglei (翟明磊), a veteran journalist who has been an active...
View ArticleXiao Shu
Xiao Shu is a veteran columnist for Southern Weekend, one of China’s leading newspapers. He writes editorials for a number of well-known Chinese newspapers,… Read
View ArticleCivil society, a road to political reform
Thanks to Premier Wen Jiabao’s (温家宝) speech in Shenzhen last month, the issue of political reform once again became the focus of widespread attention in China. Wen Jiabao’s speech was essentially a...
View ArticleAnyuanding, and why political reform can’t wait
They were equipped with police truncheons, attack dogs, private jails and special armored vehicles. The whole escort organization, for so it was called, was staffed much like a military outfit: one...
View ArticleIs anyone really secure in China?
When a recent forum in Beijing brought together deans from law schools around the world, the most stirring moment came as Zhou Yongkang (周永康), the most senior Communist Party leader in charge of legal...
View ArticleLife should not yield to development
At Southern Weekend, Tim Hathaway translates a recent piece by columnist and CMP fellow Xiao Shu (笑蜀) called “Life should not yield to development,” in which the writer reflects on the cultural and...
View ArticleThe value of honeybee democracy
“The New Parable of the Bees” is an essay in the launch issue of the journal Translated Works. In my view, we might say instead that the entire launch issue of Translated Works (译品) is a kind of new...
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Thoughts on my online annihilation
NOTE: The following post by veteran journalist and former Southern Weekly commentator Xiao Shu (Chen Min) was posted to his Facebook account today. Xiao Shu is an important figure in the New Citizens...
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