top of page
Patricia Thornton
Nov 30, 202319 min read
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...
Patricia Thornton
Mar 1, 202321 min read
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, 202115 min read
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, 202114 min read
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...
bottom of page