A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel
PIN HO, WENGUANG HUANGThe downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China’s new president Xi Jinping.The scandalous story of the corruption of the Bo...
Why is China Still Messing with the Foreign Press?
ANDREW J. NATHAN, ISABEL HILTON, JONATHAN LANDRETH (& authors)To those raised in the Marxist tradition, nothing in the media happens by accident. In China, the flagship newspapers are still the “throat and tongue” of the ruling party, and their work is directed by the Party’s Propaganda Department. That’s the first...
Cyber Attacks—What’s the Best Response?
JONATHAN LANDRETH, JAMES FALLOWS, XIAO QIANG (& authors)Jonathan Landreth:With regular ChinaFile Conversation contributor Elizabeth Economy on the road, I turned to her colleague Adam Segal, Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Segal said that “the time for naming and...
Covering China: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
THE EDITORSOn February 5, 2013, ChinaFile celebrated its official launch by bringing together a panel of former and current New York Times correspondents, whose collective China experience spans the course of half a century, to discuss their coverage of China. ChinaFile’s publisher and...
China’s Cyberattacks — At What Cost?
JAMES FALLOWS, DONALD CLARKE, ORVILLE SCHELL (& authors)James Fallows: Here are some initial reactions on the latest hacking news.We call this the “latest” news because I don’t think anyone, in China or outside, is actually surprised. In my own experience in China, which is limited compared with many of yours, I’ve seen the...