Tag: Chinese Communist Party

So like, Joseph Torigian talks about Xi Jinping's dad, Xi Zhongxun, and how his whole deal shapes Xi Jinping's views now. Torigian's new book, The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun,...

In late October, a report from Radio Free Asia revealed that Xu Zhiyong, a Chinese civil rights advocate and lawyer, was on a hunger strike to protest the harsh conditions of his imprisonment. Xu,...

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the 1989 mass demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, and the subsequent brutal suppression on June 4th. The memories of these events are fading into the...