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NGOs and bookshops are closing, media organisations are leaving and democracy activists are on trial

On the last stretch of flatlands north of Beijing, just before the Mongolian foothills, lies the satellite city of Tiantongyuan. Built during the euphoric run-up to the 2008 Olympics, it was designed as a modern, Hong Kong–style housing district of over 400,000 people, with plentiful shopping and a subway line into Beijing. But it was a rushed job, and planners neglected to

In February 2022, a friend in Hong Kong sent me an urgent notice on an encrypted messaging app. It was Bao Pu, a publisher whose New Century Press once…

When Chinese law professor Xu Zhangrun began publishing articles last year criticizing the government’s turn toward a harsher variety of authoritarianism, it seemed inevitable that he would be swiftly silenced. But then, remarkably, dozens of prominent citizens began speaking up. Some signed a petition, others wrote essays and poems in Xu’s support, and one wrote a song. To

BEIJING: A Chinese military doctor who exposed the full extent of the SARS epidemic when it ripped through Beijing ...