Ian Johnson - Updates

Debacle in Beijing: the blind lawyer saga

admin — Fri, 04 May 2012 01:03:42 +0000

What’s the best course for the blind lawyer, Chen Guangcheng, and what can western countries do when human rights are violated? I take a skeptical look in this New York Review of Books blogpost.

Chinese officials wiretapping each other

admin — Fri, 04 May 2012 01:00:23 +0000

Most attention has focused on the death of a British businessman as the trigger for China’s ongoing political, but in this article in the NYTa colleague and I posit that it was also due to leaders’ penchant for wiretapping each other.

“Worse than the Cultural Revolution”

admin — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:47:05 +0000

If you’re interested in the destruction of Chinese culture, this interview with one of China’ top cultural bureaucrats might be of interest.

The Moon Year

admin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:22:39 +0000

What do Bo Xilai and hibernating insects have in common. I try to figure this out in this blogpost in the New York Review of Books.