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This week, news about a well-known Chinese monk going off the Buddhist path has triggered many discussions on Chinese social media. The story revolves around Shi Yongxin (释永信), the head monk at... Read more »

This essay is written precisely so that it could be dismissed. —Paul Mann (1991: 141)   Gary Zhexi Zhang (2021) first coined the term ‘Sinopessimism’ as a speculative counterpart to Afropessimism, imagining... Read more »

A controversial Buddhist organisation, at the centre of an alleged Chinese espionage case in Australia, has raised concerns about Beijing keeping tabs on Chinese diaspora overseas. Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door is... Read more »

This is a patent application filed by a Chinese company in multiple countries to protect its novel design for an E.V. battery. A single red rectangle with a patent drawing. In 2000,... Read more »

Last month, a Chinese man attacked a Japanese woman and her child in a subway station in Suzhou, sending her to the hospital for treatment. Media reports about the attack were censored... Read more »

Name one thing that, in the whole of China, only exists in Xinjiang.Answer 1: “Did you get the community office’s approval to post this?”Answer 2: “Did you report in after coming back... Read more »

A prominent Thai art gallery became embroiled in a scandal last week when it removed parts of an exhibition following pressure from the Chinese embassy. Ironically, the title of the exhibition, hosted... Read more »

The US has briefly deployed two warships in a disputed South China Sea shoal where two Chinese ships collided earlier in the week while trying to drive away a smaller Philippine ship... Read more »

Adjacent to a municipal government building in Beijing, a normally bustling restaurant is now eerily quiet, at lunchtime most of its seats are empty. The recent crackdown on civil servants frequenting restaurants... Read more »