China’s entry into WTO has been presented as a great victory for the Chinese nation, with claims that it will push economic growth to new heights and bring increased prosperity to most people. Based on detailed research about the state of the urban unemployed in China, Dorothy J. Solinger questions...

Wang Ruoshui, a renowned philosopher and journalist, and one of four dissidents who joined the board of Human Rights in China while still living in China, died of lung cancer at the age of 75 on January 9, 2002, in Boston. He was staying in the city while his wife, Feng Yuan, took up a Nieman...

China’s leaders often denounce corruption and an on-going campaign against the widespread bribery and graft which is costing the Communist Party much public support has resulted in a number of executions of prominent officials. But journalists who go beyond the approved targets of the anti-...

The Chinese Communist Party has proved remarkably successful at restricting what people say and write about the situation in China, writes Perry Link , so much so that invisible pressures for self-censorship extend to people far beyond the borders of the People’s Republic.