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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Only hours after last week’s catastrophic Wang Fuk Court fire in Hong Kong—from which the death toll now stands at ...

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 ...

The catastrophic fire at Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court housing complex last week has been widely discussed on mainland social media. Many commenters mourned the dead as their number climbed past 100, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last month, Southern Weekly reported on a policy at some hospitals in Shanxi requiring that ADHD patients get a "Class 1 Psychiatric Drug Prescribed" stamp in their hukou household registration ...

只稍有了解文革历史的人想必都清楚，它是一种倒退、一种失序、一种浩劫、一种地狱，但为什么年轻人依然呼唤着潘多拉的魔盒呢？一种解释是由于真实历史教育的匮乏，中国存在着严重的集体遗忘与代际断层，那种悲剧不会重演、苦难不会重复的线性进步想象，只是一种单纯的美 ...