Who’s Afraid of Chizuko Ueno? The Party’s Ongoing Counteroffensive against Feminism in the Xi Era
The detention of young female activists who participated in the A4 anti-lockdown protests in November 2022 brought renewed attention to...
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Patricia Thornton
- Mar 1, 2023
- 21 min
The A4 Movement: Mapping its Background and Impact
Although not the primary cause that prompted the sudden reversal of Xi Jinping’s signature “zero-COVID” policy, the protests that swept...
James Leibold
- Dec 1, 2021
- 15 min
The Not-so Model Minority: Xi Jinping’s Mongolian Crackdown
Xi Jinping and the party Center in Beijing are in the midst of a far-reaching rectification campaign in Inner Mongolia. The introduction...
Diana Fu and Emile Dirks
- Sep 1, 2021
- 14 min
Xi Jinping-Style Control and Civil Society Responses
On the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, grassroots civil society is in trouble. Democracy advocates...
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