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Former Shanghai Deputy Mayor on Rising Through the Ranks
This is the fifth in a five-part series about women in Chinese politics. You can find parts one, two, three, and four here. Few women are given the opportunity to hold powerful offices in the Chinese...
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Anxi Party Official Addresses Telecom Scams, Blames Taiwan
The party secretary of Anxi County, Gao Xiangrong, has spoken out to defend his jurisdiction against accusations that it is home to a far-reaching telecommunications fraud racket. Gao noted that of...
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Corruption Runs Through Flood-Ravaged Yangtze Village
This is the second in a series of articles about a town struggling to survive in a flood zone along the Yangtze River. You can find part one here. Jin Chengyue vividly remembers the moment his...
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How to Lose Your Party Job in 14 Ways
A professor at a Communist Party school has been taken into custody for failing to adequately disclose personal information to the Party — a rarely reported but frequently perpetrated infraction. Luo...
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Why China Is Wooing Southeast Asia’s New Strongman
Last year brought political upheaval in Southeast Asia as much as in the West. Away from the twin shocks of Brexit and Trump, China’s new relationship with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte could...
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Politics and Fraud Level Town’s Flood Defenses
This is the third in a series of articles about a town struggling to survive in a flood zone along the Yangtze River. You can find parts one and two here. In July 2016, TV news stations started warning...
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Millennial Instructs Party Members on Proper WeChat Use
Party members should see messaging app WeChat’s as a public place and will get punished if they “groundlessly criticize” major policies, an article shared on WeChat by Party mouthpiece People’s Daily...
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What the Public Really Think of Anti-corruption Crackdowns
In the nearly four decades since the advent of China’s market-driven policy reforms, the government has made repeated efforts to control and prevent corruption through political campaigns, legal...
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Youth League Weighs In on Religion Ban for Party Members
One cannot serve two masters, the Bible says, and China’s Communist Party appears to agree. A recent post on Zhihu, China’s answer to Quora, has once again prompted the question: Is it possible to be...
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Hainan Official Investigated for Not Updating Website
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Snoozing Hubei Officials Get Rude Awakening
Nearly a dozen government and Party officials from Hubei province in central China have been discipline for sleeping and playing with their phones during meetings about how to improve one’s work...
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Columbia’s Chinese Students Targeted by Racist Vandalism
This Chinese New Year, students at Columbia University in New York City received a jarring reminder that prejudice and xenophobia can be found in even the most liberal of enclaves.Over the holiday...
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The Truth Behind China’s Aid Ambitions in Africa
In August 2013, after a farewell party in the provincial capital of Xi’an, a team of 42 doctors and other medical workers from northwestern China’s Shaanxi province departed for the northern African...
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Environment Officials Suspended After Grilling on TV Show
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Students Release Second Video After Columbia Vandalism
In a video posted to Facebook on Friday morning, minority students at Columbia University in New York City directly addressed a spate of racially motivated vandalism in which students with...
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Leaders Look Down From the Walls of China’s Cottages
Before the lunar new year, Yang Zhimou takes his 75-year-old mother to the local fair to pick up a nianhua — a new year painting — to hang on the wall at her home in Zhouzhi County, a rural area in...
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Politics and Fraud Level Town’s Flood Defenses
This is the third in a series of articles about a town struggling to survive in a flood zone along the Yangtze River. You can find parts one and two here. In July 2016, TV news stations started warning...
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Millennial Instructs Party Members on Proper WeChat Use
Party members should see messaging app WeChat’s as a public place and will get punished if they “groundlessly criticize” major policies, an article shared on WeChat by Party mouthpiece People’s Daily...
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Aspiring Village Chief Nabbed for Virtual Vote Buying
In a new twist on China’s craze for electronic red envelopes, or hongbao, an aspiring local village chief found his fortunes had run out when discipline officials detained him for vote-buying....
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How Yao Ming’s New Job Will Revive Chinese Basketball
With his size-18 feet, newly elected Chinese Basketball Association chairman Yao Ming should have no trouble filling the shoes of his predecessor. Since his retirement as a player, the 36-year-old...
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