Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, researcher and founder of the China Unofficial Archives, a new website that collects hundreds of samizdat journals, books, and underground documentary ...

The lessons I draw from these efforts is that despite the Chinese government’s economic clout and its willingness to ...

China is a powerful nation now. Decades of fast GDP growth. The second largest economy in the world. Yet another “New Era” has been declared by yet another strong and wise leader (Mao Zedong used the ...

The ChinaFile Conversation is a regular, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts. Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, researcher and founder ...

The young Uyghur filmmaker Ikram Nurmehmet is now in a Chinese prison for “actively participating in terrorist activities.” He was likely targeted because he had studied in Turkey between 2010 and ...

More than the chronology of one company, House of Huawei is partly a family biography of Ren and his eldest daughter Meng Wanzhou, and partly a geopolitical thriller about two superpowers and the ...

A conservative party pledging to return the country to a glorious imagined past. Massive budget cuts across government ministries. Concerns about foreign influence. An unprecedented challenge of ...

The final months of 2024 witnessed a new wave of purges in Xi Jinping’s China. On November 28, the Defense Ministry announced the suspension from his duties of Admiral Miao Hua, the number four ...

In online spaces where Chinese students and researchers congregate, complaints about the state of scientific research in China abound.

These graphics are based on research by Lydia Wong, Eric Yan-ho Lai, Charlotte Yeung, and Thomas Kellogg. The graphics are regularly updated, and earlier versions of them, along with analysis of the ...

This October 16 marks the 60th anniversary of the testing of the first Chinese nuclear bomb. When my friends and I coiled up our jump ropes and returned to class, we learned inspirational tales about ...