Torture and wrongful convictions: Some good news amid the gloom
A Henan man wrongfully convicted of murder after a forced confession regained his freedom on Monday, April 1, 2020, after 16 years in prison.
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Conor McGregor calls China βbarbaricβ for delivering faulty masks
TheΒ China Sports ColumnΒ is a The China Project weekly feature.Β Mixed Martial Arts megastar Conor McGregor has slammed China for exporting personal protective equipment (PPE) that...
All the early COVID-19 stories censored off Chinese internet
Illustration by Derek Zheng The first few weeks after the novel coronavirus appeared in Wuhan saw China’s beleaguered domestic media rise to the occasion. Through...
Li Qingzhao, poet, ‘the most talented woman in history’
Illustration by Derek Zheng April is National Poetry Month, and to commemorate, weβll be taking a look at famous Chinese poets this month in our...
Chinese commentary: COVID-19 may ravage America, but it wonβt dent American self-confidence
Chairman Rabbit (ε δΈ»εΈ tΓΉ zhΗxΓ) is the popular WeChat account and pseudonym of RΓ¨n YΓ¬ δ»»ζ, the grandson of noted Communist Party reformer RΓ¨n ZhΓ²ngyΓ...
Chinese cartoon depicts rule-breaking foreigners as trash to be sorted
Driven by a string of news stories that put foreigners in a negative light for their irresponsible behavior during the outbreak, Chinese social media has been flooded with hateful and sometimes violent comments targeting the expatriate community. Over the weekend, the intolerance reached a fever pitch with a cartoon created by WeChat blog ι¦ι²€ιεΉ΄ (Koi Youth jΗnlΗ qΔ«ngniΓ‘n), which places foreigners who βseek special treatment and run wildβ in China into various categories, and depicts them as trash to be disposed of.
βChicken Poetsβ: Meng Jinghuiβs absurdist comedy explores art in an artless world
April is National Poetry Month, and in honor of that, we present Chicken Poets, a film about a poet who struggles to fit inside modern...
Self-Quarantine in Beijing: Ep. 6, Some protection is better than none
I’ve been illustrating this βSelf-Quarantine in Beijingβ series for a while now.Β During this time, nothing has made me laugh as much as seeing the...
Chinese customers divided over Luckin Coffee fraud scandal
Despite the overwhelmingly negative perception of Luckin Coffee among U.S. investors and policymakers, the company's fraud scandal didnβt seem to have an adverse impact on its business in China. Some proponents even came to Luckinβs defense, arguing that a Chinese company scamming American investors for the benefit of Chinese consumers was actually a βnobleβ idea.