The lessons I draw from these efforts is that despite the Chinese government’s economic clout and its willingness to ...

Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, researcher and founder of the China Unofficial Archives, a new website that collects hundreds of samizdat journals, books, and underground documentary ...

What is the future of China studies in the United States given this changing environment? How are recent politics in China and in China’s relations with the U.S. likely to alter the mechanics and ...

New Era Civilization Practice Centers are designed to deliver a mix of social services and political indoctrination, to draw China’s citizens ever nearer to the Party by giving them tangible reminders ...

Li Wenliang’s death had only been announced a few hours earlier, but Warming High-Tech was already on the case. The company had been monitoring online mentions of the COVID-whistleblower’s name in the ...

The I Ching has served for thousands of years as a philosophical taxonomy of the universe, a guide to an ethical life, a manual for rulers, and an oracle of one’s personal future and the future of the ...

In August, when I visited Wuhan, I met with a young building-company manager who had worked on the construction sites of various emergency clinics and quarantine facilities during the city’s outbreak.

In early February, the European Commission issued a sweeping strategy for setting global technology standards. Coming on the heels of Beijing’s latest standards strategy, released in October, it ...

This weekend, China’s leaders gather in Beijing for meetings widely expected to determine the shape of China’s economy, as well as the nation’s progress, over the next decade. What exactly the outcome ...

Xu Zhiyong is a legal scholar and was a university lecturer. He holds a doctorate from Peking University. He co-founded the New Citizens Movement, a group that advocated civil rights and China’s ...

One night in September, three hundred people crowded into the basement auditorium of an office tower in Beijing to hear a discussion between two of China’s most popular writers. One was Liu Yu, a ...

The ChinaFile Conversation is a regular, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts. Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, researcher and founder ...