Despite their many efforts to stave off greater mobilization inspired by the ideals of the New Citizens Movement, the Party must know that eventually the force of popular mobilization will be too great to disregard by mere omission.
China's growing economic prosperity has distinguished today's youth – and their demands – from the "89 generation". But though unlikely to occupy the square, the introduction of digital technologies means that political protest is not dead.
What can we learn from comparing the 1989 revolutions in Poland and in China?
The heroes of the democracy movement were crushed in 1989. That taught Chinese people an indelible lesson, says the pioneering democracy campaigner, Wei Jingsheng.
In the twenty-five years since the Tiananmen Square massacre, China’s party-state appears to have stabilised its rule by instrumental middle-class support secured for material gain. The next twenty-five years may not, however, be so certain.
The strike at an Adidas shoe factory, the sheer scale of it and workers’ increasing skills of organising strikes without bona fide union representation have created a renewed round of debate on how Chinese authorities will handle increasingly tense industrial relations in China.
No amount of US "pivoting" can prevent the emergence of a multipolar, multi-powered world along a Eurasian axis that challenges western neoliberal hegemoy.
China's rich history is a seductive resource for China's modern politicians. But its complexity can also make it a selective one, says Kerry Brown.
Chinese women face a resurgent crisis of gender inequality, argues Leta Hong Fincher in her new book Leftover Women. She talks to openDemocracy about the future of feminism under socialist neoliberalism.
The challenges of changing a revolutionary party into a ruling party, as seen by no new Martin Luther, but a modernist.
While there are certainly gendered imbalances in the actual structures of current sex markets, these imbalances are created, reinforced and strengthened not by sex work itself but by laws criminalizing sex work and by treating sex workers as second-class citizens without rights.
Hong Kong has long been seen as the testing ground for peaceful absorption of a democratic territory into the People’s Republic of China.
