Media
03.11.13
Young Family’s Arrest Brings Tension Between Vendors and Police into Focus
A one-and-a-half-year-old girl wraps her arms around her mother’s neck, crying. Her mother, handcuffed, cannot hug her back—she can only squat down beside the police car to match her daughter’s height. “I’m sorry, mommy can’t hold you…”On March 6,...
Media
02.13.13
Officer Draws Gun on Drunk Driver—To Overwhelming Online Applause
A policeman draws his gun to stop a desperately escaping criminal. It may sound sensational, but this is technically what happened in the southern Chinese megalopolis of Guangzhou on January 31. As traffic policemen were manning a drunk driving...
Caixin Media
01.28.13Cleaning Up China’s Secret Police Sleuthing
Wiretapping, email hacking, cell phone tracking, and secret videotaping are just a few of the cloak-and-dagger techniques long employed by police in the course of criminal investigations in China.But now, for the first time, new rules say that...
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12.10.12Keep Smiling! – You’re Being Watched
China Story
Frequent media reports of overwhelming popular support for mass surveillance are propagandistic in tone and content. However, is there nonetheless some truth in the ‘happy Chinese panopticon’? An international comparative survey on privacy and...
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12.02.12Chinese Media Partly Retreat After Black Jails Verdict
New York Times
A brief news article published on Sunday by a score of state-run news media outlets offered an account of an unexpected judicial verdict: a Beijing municipal court had sentenced 10 people to jail for illegally detaining and assaulting a group of...
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11.24.12China's 'Beijing Blues' Wins at Taiwan Film Fest
Associated Press
Director Gao Qunshu's drama is about a Beijing police detective's battle against crime with a squad of plainclothes crime-hunters.
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06.28.12Africans in Southern China
On June 19, I saw the oft-retweeted images on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, which showed black people in Guangzhou city protesting together. My first reaction: This image was from three years ago. Only after an online search did I realize the image...
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06.28.12China Polices Its Police
Economist
In the run-up to this autumn’s Communist Party Congress, at which China will change its most senior leaders for the first time in ten years, provincial- and lower-level party committees have already been revamped. In the process, provincial chiefs...
The NYRB China Archive
08.10.06
‘June Fourth’ Seventeen Years Later: How I Kept a Promise
from New York Review of Books
The weekend of June 3, 2006, was the seventeenth anniversary of the Beijing massacre and also the first time I ever received a summons. It happened, as the police put it, “according to law.” Twice within twenty-four hours Deputy Chief Sun Di of...
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07.01.92Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on the Police Ranks of the People’s Police
Chinalawinfo
Article 1 These Regulations are formulated in accordance with the Constitution, with a view to strengthening the revolution, modernization and standardization of the contingent of the people's police, enhancing their sense of responsibility,...