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How a Crackdown Transformed LGBTQ Activism in China
Sep 26, 2024 · In mid-2020, despite the COVID pandemic and years of tightening space for civil society, China’s LGBTQ movement was still making strides. While most pride celebrations around the world were canceled due to the pandemic, Shanghai Pride held nine days of festivities, including a “Pride Run” and “Pride Job Fair.”News that a transgender woman had successfully sued her employer for ...
From Wild Exuberance to State Control in China’s Art Market
Sep 24, 2024 · The scholar and journalist Kejia Wu is the author of A Modern History of China’s Art Market, a fascinating book that examines the relationship between the Chinese government’s push for cultural “soft power” and its desire for control. In the book, Wu looks at the rise of contemporary art and a market for it after the end of the Cultural Revolution; the …
35 Years Later: A Retrospective of Our Work on the 1989 …
Jun 3, 2024 · This year is the 35th anniversary of the 1989 mass demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, and elsewhere around China, and their brutal suppression on June 4. The memories of these events are receding into the past, a process greatly aided in China by censorship. And even when remembered, the crackdown that ended the optimistic 1980s in China is viewed by some Chinese government ...
Document 9, 10 Years Later - ChinaFile
Mar 6, 2023 · Ten years ago, in April 2013, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) promulgated a critical directive: its “Communiqué on the Current State of the Ideological Sphere.” The document, issued by the CCP’s General Office and not intended for public distribution, enumerated seven “false ideological trends, positions, and activities” that posed a …
Kejia Wu | ChinaFile
Sep 24, 2024 · Kejia Wu is an art historian, columnist for The Financial Times Chinese Edition, and author of the book A Modern History of China’s Art Market (Routledge, 2023). She is a trustee of the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. Kejia authored The European Fine Art Foundation’s Art Market Report in 2019 and was honored with the Asia Art Pioneers Award by ArtReview Asia ...
ChinaFile Presents: A Wild Ride through China’s Economy with …
Mar 7, 2024 · The 1980s were an extraordinary time of hope in China, both for its citizens and for foreign visitors. Anne Stevenson-Yang first went to China in 1985, where she was enchanted by the lively cultural scene and what seemed to be the growing openness of the country’s political system. But there’s very little of that optimism left.
China Digital Times - ChinaFile
Jul 7, 2016 · From their website:China Digital Times (CDT) is an independent, bilingual media organization that brings uncensored news and online voices from China to the world.We achieve this through:Filtering and aggregating news from English-language media and placing it in a broader social and political context;Amplifying the voices of Chinese citizens through translation;Revealing the hidden mechanisms ...
Louise Matsakis - ChinaFile
Mar 15, 2024 · Louise Matsakis is a freelance journalist covering technology and China. She is the author of You May Also Like, a newsletter about e-commerce and the global rise of Chinese tech giants.She previously worked as an editor and reporter at Semafor, NBC News, WIRED, Rest of World, and other outlets.
Tracking the Impact of Hong Kong’s National Security Law
Nov 14, 2024 · These graphics are based on research by Lydia Wong, Eric Yan-ho Lai, Charlotte Yeung, and Thomas Kellogg.The graphics are regularly updated, and earlier versions of them, along with analysis of the data, appear in “New Data Show Hong Kong’s National Security Arrests Follow a Pattern,” “Arrest Data Show National Security Law Has Dealt a Hard Blow to Free Expression in Hong Kong,” and ...