Analyses and Opinions

‘Not a Single Penny’: Why One Overseas Chinese Won’t Donate to ‘Disaster Relief’ Efforts in China Wuyuesanren, August 5, 2023 Wuyuesanren (五岳散人), or Yao Bo (姚博), was a well-known Chinese journalist, a Weibo “Big V” with a large number of…

Ilham Wang Lixiong, July 29, 2023 This is a China Change translation of a Radio Free Asia column by Beijing-based author Wang Lixiong (王力雄), published on July 24, 2023. Wang Lixiong is a well-known author on Tibet and Xinjiang, as well as…

Young and Furiously Laughing in China Yaxue Cao, May 28, 2023 A Xiaoguo stand-up comedy show in Nanjing. Following the Blank Paper protests last November, I realized that I had been caught off-guard by contemporary Chinese youth,…

In Zealous Effort to Increase Grain Production, China Deploys Force and Coercion to ‘Manage’ the Countryside China Change, April 30, 2023 It’s the season for spring planting in China, starting from the south and moving up to the north.…

A Protest Song Has Emerged in China — It’s the Communist Anthem Yaxue Cao, March 5, 2023 Shanghai, 1973. Photo: Bruno Barbey The first time I heard The Internationale sung in China as a protest song was when Shanghai went into lockdown…

The Choice Facing the Taiwanese People: Moving Towards Greater Enlightenment, or Falling Back to the Dark Age of Dictatorship? Tsao Hsing-cheng, January 18, 2023 Is that even a choice? — you may ask. China is this mammoth totalitarian…

A Conversation With Ilham Tohti Yaxue Cao, January 13, 2023 The article was first published by the Uyghur Human Rights Project. A Chinese version is also available. Photo: AP Listen to the author reading it I wrote down the title…

2022: Remember the Light the Young Have Shown Us Jiang Xue, January 3, 2023 In Beijing, at least 11 young people have been detained in connection with the “Blank Paper” (白纸抗议) protests, of whom two are confirmed to be journalists, another…

A Good Country, A Good People – Thirty Days Around Taiwan Yaxue Cao, December 31, 2022 In the coming weeks and months, China Change will start publishing a series of interviews conducted in Taiwan during a recent trip. The following…

‘We Have a Duty to Leave a Record of This Tyrannical Era, Even at the Cost of Our Personal Liberty’: Chow Hang-tung’s Court Defense of the Hong Kong Alliance in the Case of Refusing to Submit Organizational Documents Demanded by the…