German President Presses China on Political Prisoners During Visit
on March 24, 2016
Gauck delivered a speech in Shanghai that criticized repressive political states and called for civil society to be allowed to flourish.
Hong Kong Bookseller Returns from China after Three-Month Absence
on March 24, 2016
It sparked fears that Chinese authorities were overriding the "one country, two systems" formula.
Qintong Boat Festival, 2008
on March 24, 2016
Villagers dressed in traditional costume pole boats during the 2008 Qintong Boat Festival in Taizhou City, Jiangsu province.
German President Joachim Gauck’s Speech at Tongji University in Shanghai
on March 24, 2016
On Wednesday, March 23, German President Joachim Gauck addressed an audience of university students in Shanghai. Among many views not typically aired in public in China, Gauck, a former Luterhan minister and anti-communist organizer, told the crowd at Tongji University that 1989—the year the East German communist state collapsed—proved to him that “human rights are not geographically or historically variable but indivisibly bound up with the existence of each individual...
Tian Shan No.1 Glacier
on March 24, 2016
A map of glaciers in China.
Kristin Shi-Kupfer
on March 24, 2016
Kristin Shi-Kupfer is the Director of the Research Area on Politics, Society, Media at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), a China think tank in Berlin. She was a China correspondent for various German-language media in Beijing from 2007 to 2011. Her current research and publications focus on China’s social change, digital society, and religious policy.
Daniel Leese
on March 23, 2016
Daniel Leese is professor of modern Chinese history and politics at the University of Freiburg. He is the author of Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China’s Cultural Revolution (Cambridge, 2011) and Die Chinesische Kulturrevolution (C.H. Beck, 2016).
Why China's Tech Players Are Set to Dominate
on March 23, 2016
Data from International Data Corporation (IDC) showed that Huawei, Xiaomi and Lenovo were among the top five global smartphone makers.
China’s Struggle for a New Normal
on March 23, 2016
Beijing seems strangely indecisive on the economy and yet increasingly authoritarian in politics.
China Aims to Tighten Its Borders Against Foreign Place Names
on March 23, 2016
Names that “damage sovereignty and national dignity” or “violate the socialist core values and conventional morality” would be targeted.