Why Are The Thirty-Year-Old Execution Photos Of A Corrupt Female Government...
Roland Soong of EastSouthWestNorth translates a Xinhua article on the unexpected popularity of execution photos taken in 1980. On April 23, 1979, the People’s Daily had an exclusive news report: In...
View ArticleThis Week on CDT, July 4, 2014
This week on CDT, a collection of “Directives from the Ministry of Truth” and a politician with a piscine nickname: Following the July 1 protest march in Hong Kong that may have attracted as many as...
View ArticleExpensive Cameras the Latest Corruption Tell-tale
Global Times reports that high-end photography gear has become a sign of officials’ illicit income, in a similar vein to the luxury wristwatches which have betrayed many of their owners: The Xinhua...
View ArticleZhou Yongkang Case To Take Longer Than Expected
The case against former security chief Zhou Yongkang has been slowly gathering steam over the past year, following his last public appearance in October 2013. Hundreds of his associates and family...
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Minitrue: Reporting on the Xu Caihou Case
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source....
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Zhou Yongkang Arrested, Expelled From Party
More than four months after the official announcement of a disciplinary investigation into Zhou Yongkang, China’s former domestic security chief has been arrested and expelled from the Communist Party....
View ArticleDespite Crackdown, Corruption Seen as Worsening
Despite Xi Jinping’s well-publicized anti-graft campaign that has led to the fall of numerous corrupt officials including former security czar Zhou Yongkang, who has been officially expelled from the...
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Women of the Week: Several
Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
View ArticleFallen Senior Official Liu Tienan Gets Life in Prison
Former deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and head of the National Energy Administration Liu Tienan has been sentenced to life in prison on corruption charges. An...
View ArticleFear and Retribution in Xi’s Corruption Purge
In a special report for Reuters, David Lague provides an in-depth look at the workings of Xi Jinping’s ongoing anti-corruption drive. After detailing a dossier on CCP Central Committee member and...
View ArticleNanjing Party Chief Sacked, Salacious Details Flow
On Thursday, Xinhua announced that former Nanjing Party Secretary and CCP Standing Committee member Yang Weize had been removed from his post, becoming the latest official to fall in Xi Jinping’s...
View ArticleNew Rhetoric Against Zhou Yongkang Baffles Netizens
Following the recent state media announcement that former security chief Zhou Yongkang will soon face an “open” trial—if only nominally so—for a variety of corruption charges, Zhou allies Jiang Jiemin...
View ArticleActivist Ou Shaokun Denies Soliciting Prostitute
Ou Shaokun, a Guangzhou-based anti-corruption activist known for his work campaigning against officials misuse of government issued vehicles, was placed under detention in Changsha, Hunan for five days...
View ArticleZhou Yongkang Indicted for Corruption, State Secrets
Following an investigation that has taken almost two years, former security chief and Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang has been officially indicted on charges of “bribery, abuse of...
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Minitrue: Cool Down on Uncle Ou Shaokun
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. All...
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Word of the Week: To Be Johnned
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
View ArticleU.S. Seeks Details on Official Amid Bank-Hiring Probe
As a part of the U.S. government’s investigation into whether J.P. Morgan hired relatives of top Chinese government officials, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a subpoena last month...
View ArticleFujian Governor Under Investigation
Su Shulin, governor of Fujian Province and a former top oil executive, has become the first acting governor to be placed under investigation during Xi Jinping’s ongoing crackdown on corruption. James...
View ArticleHuman Rights an “Excuse” for Harboring Suspects?
Since becoming China’s top leader more than three years ago, President Xi Jinping has vowed to crack down on both “tigers” and “flies”–low-level government officials and Party elites–in a nationwide...
View ArticleSevere Flood Damage Traced to Corruption, Overbuilding
Flooding across central and southern China has killed more than 100 people and submerged countless neighborhoods in one of the worst floods the country has suffered since 1998. At Quartz, Zheping Huang...
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