This week, as expected, embattled short-video platform TikTok and its Chinese parent Bytedance launched a legal challenge to recent U.S. legislation requiring that TikTok’s American operations be ...

Xi Jinping made his first visit to Europe in five years. The first stop on his three-country tour was France, followed by Serbia and Hungary. Xi last met with French President Emmanuel Macron in ...

Last week’s collapse of a stretch of the Meizhou-Dabu Expressway in Guangdong province, after a period of heavy rains and extreme weather, killed at least 48 motorists and injured 30. Despite the high ...

Students from at least 174 colleges and universities across six continents have erected encampments in solidarity with Palestine. Their movement has sprouted over the past few weeks, as many ...

On Chinese social media, the phrase “weak spot” (软肋, ruǎn lèi) is often used metaphorically to refer to family members—particularly children—used as leverage by public security, state security, or ...

In recent weeks, residents of the cities of Chongqing and Chengdu have been posting screenshots of their natural gas bills online and complaining of mysterious gas consumption spikes since the ...

The Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon is an online glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. Is the Internet acting as a “safety valve” to ...

In December 2023, we published a revised edition of the Lexicon as an eBook, which includes updated entries for 104 of the most salient terms we have collected over the past 20 years. Please ...

This Communist Party slogan was heavily used during the Cultural Revolution, an era in which citizens were incentivized to spy on and even falsely accuse family and neighbors of being disloyal to ...

Vague descriptor that is often used as code for towing the Party line. “Positive energy” was meme-ified in China during the 2010 trial of Song Shanmu, the founder of a well-known vocational ...

Through combing over and pondering political philosophy, comparative politics, the history of development of liberalism and political science, the history of economics, and institutional economics ...

"Harbinger of History: Past Promises of the Chinese Communist Party" (历史的先声——中国共产党曾经的承诺), edited by Xiao Shu, is a compilation and analysis of pro-democracy ...