Hit-and-Run Tragedy: Which Ideology to Blame?
Many commentators are looking to blame ideology for the inaction of the 18 passers-by who failed to help an injured two-year-old in Foshan. The question is, which ideology is to blame? The Washington...
View ArticleCake Theory: Ideological Divisions and the Future of the CCP
NPR’s Louisa Lim highlights the increasingly public ideological cleavage within China’s Communist Party, marked by the leftist Chongqing model and the market-driven Guangdong model, and assesses the...
View ArticleTime to Rethink the “China Model”?
On The East Asia Forum, Shaun Breslin challenges the concept of a distinct “China model” of development, suggesting that China’s growth experience is not new and different but rather another example of...
View ArticleChina’s Vice President Orders More Thought Control over Students
Vice President Xi Jinping, who is widely expected to take over the presidency from Hu Jintao later this year, has called on universities to exercise stricter ideological control over their students....
View ArticleDeng’s China, 20 Years On
With the next generation of Chinese rulers knocking on the door of the Politburo ahead of a leadership reshuffle later this year, The Atlantic’s Damien Ma looks ahead by first looking back on Deng...
View ArticleBeyond Censorship in China’s Media and Cyberspace
Simon Fraser University professor Zhao Yuezhi has conducted in-depth research on the political economy of communication in China. In the most recent Asia Pacific Memo, Zhao focuses on the internal...
View ArticleTumult in the Year of the Dragon?
Emory University’s Tonio Andrade writes that while China has seen a period of relative political stability over the last several decades, the recent downfall of Bo Xilai and the subsequent coup rumors...
View ArticleEric X. Li on China’s Ideological Rift
Venture capitalist, frequent English language op-ed writer and rising public intellectual Eric X. Li warns us that a constant focus on the sacking of Bo Xilai is distracting from a much more menacing...
View ArticleEric X. Li: “Democracy is Not the Answer”
With his frequent opinion pieces and public lectures, venture capitalist Eric X. Li has established himself a rising Chinese public intellectual for the English-speaking world. Since 2011, a number of...
View ArticleHow the West Shaped China’s Ideological Battles
As China’s leadership transition approaches, the public battle of political ideals is becoming more acute. Despite their sharply divided positions, those on the left and the right share one thing: most...
View ArticleCentral Committee Notice Concerning Strengthening Propaganda and Ideology...
As CDT readers know, we regularly post propaganda orders which we call Directives from the Ministry of Truth. These posts are only possible because of the Internet; journalists leak the orders online...
View ArticleDon’t Write Off Mao Just Yet
While the foreign media has reported that the Chinese Communist Party may downplay Mao Zedong Thought at its upcoming 18th Party Congress, The Diplomat’s Mu Chunshan warns against reading too far into...
View ArticleXi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream”: Dangers in Opacity
Every head of the post-Mao PRC has risen to power with a personal slogan to characterize their leadership aspirations and establish their position in the ideological heritage of the CCP. Deng Xiaoping...
View ArticleMao Yushi and Critics Put Ideological Gulf on Display
Mao Yushi, the 84-year-old economist who last year won the Cato Institute’s Milton Freedom Prize for Advancing Liberty, is a prominent voice on one side of China’s ideological gulf — his free-market...
View ArticleXi Aims to Tread Softly in Latin America
After his first foreign tour as president in March, a strategically important journey that began in Russia and took him to three African nations, Xi Jinping will begin his second series of overseas...
View ArticleChinese Parents Reject ‘Brainwashing’ Book List
At Tea Leaf Nation, Liz Carter surveys and translates parents’ online reaction to a list of books and films that the government will be promoting, many of which have strong nationalistic and...
View ArticleXi Embraces Mao as He Tightens Grip on Country
The debate concerning Xi Jinping’s capability and willingness to bring about reform in China comes as the CCP is witnessing a clear division in ideological orientation. While he has signaled a...
View ArticleTextbooks Modified to Curb ‘Deep Thinking’
At Tea Leaf Nation, Liz Carter notes that, much to the chagrin of many netizens, an essay by modern literary figure Lu Xun has been omitted from the latest editions of widely used middle school...
View ArticleParty Journal Decries Western ‘Democracy Trap’
Any speculation that the Xi administration would foster an environment welcoming political reform has been all but annihilated by an ongoing crackdown on liberalism that has targeted China’s media,...
View ArticleWhen Western Journalists Loved China’s Communists
The Global Times reports on an exhibition co-sponsored by the State Archives Administration of China entitled “Red Star Over China: Chinese Communists in the Eyes of Foreign Journalists.” The...
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