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Tracy Tan, a senior in the prestigious Beijing University, said that Xiaonei is extremely popular among students in top colleges in China.
As China prepares to celebrate the Lunar New Year this weekend, there is much hyperbole about the country's gleaming new skyscrapers, swelling middle class, dazzling preparations for the Olympics and so forth. But it is always worth getting a reality check on what underlies that rosy picture, the fact...
Back in Linyi, Chen's activities were less well received. Hours after meeting Hannah in the Chinese capital in the fall of 2005, Chen was detained by security officials from his hometown, who had driven all the way to Beijing to nab him. For the next six months, he was...
Chen's only recourse now is China's Byzantine petitioning system, a holdover from imperial days that exists in parallel with the legal system. As Li notes, it is rare for a petition even to be accepted by the relevant office, much less be acted on. And in many cases...
Both Li and Teng are pretty formidable, too, and remain dedicated to their public interest vocations despite knowing full well what the consequences can be. Last December, Li and three other lawyers took a long distance bus from Beijing to visit Chen. The bus was stopped in mid-journey and...