11 March 2014
The violence in Kunming shows how China’s ethnic policies conflict with Xi Jinping’s reform plans, writes James Leibold in Beijing
4 July 2013
A high-tech system of social control is being superimposed on China’s network of urban neighbourhoods, writes James Leibold in Beijing
23 May 2013
“Stability maintenance” is translating into greater surveillance, but the Chinese government’s response to ethnic frictions looks to be unsustainable, writes…
22 April 2013
There’s a paradox at the heart of Xi Jinping’s new political maxim, writes James Leibold in Beijing
13 March 2013
There’s austerity in the air as China’s parliament meets, but has anything else changed, asks James Leibold in Beijing
6 December 2012
Antonia Finnane on art and the military in China
17 October 2012
The latest biography of Liang Qichao reveals a man of his times with a new significance for present-day China, writes Antonia Finnane in Beijing
7 June 2012
Twenty-three years after the massacre, the events of 4 June 1989 are still off limits, writes Antonia Finnane in Beijing
23 May 2012
While the media was gripped by the Bo Xilai scandal, the story of another privileged child of a Communist Party official was unfolding on the internet, writes Antonia …
22 April 2012
In Beijing, Antonia Finnane looks at a ten-year plan for a staged transition to constitutional democracy
