A C4ADS study follows tenders and invoices across Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, and Hong Kong to name the companies supplying Beijing’s watchers.
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Decolonial Endurance on China’s Margins: Lisu Lives Under Chinese “Development”
An anthropologist follows pain, care, and birth‑planning violence in the Nu River Valley, offering lessons for other indigenous peoples under Beijing’s rule.
The Agreement Beijing Did Not Erase
China inherited a territorial claim. It also inherited an unanswered political obligation to Uyghurs.
Inside the Maoist Communist Party of China. 3. A Failed Protest?
Exclusive interviews with militants who believe that the leftist movement is doomed by its own fundamentalist Marxism and uncertain strategy.
Inside the Maoist Communist Party of China. 2. A United Front with “Bourgeois” Dissidents?
The left-wing opposition to Xi Jinping is divided on whether to cooperate with “liberal” opponents—an exclusive investigation into a secretive world.
Inside the Maoist Communist Party of China. 1. A Leftist Dissent
An exclusive investigation into a secretive group that tries to control the labor protests of the Jasic Workers Solidarity Group and attack the CCP from the left.
How Beijing Turned Uyghur Childhood Into a State Project
Official documents trace a policy chain from preschool language instruction and boarding schools to mainland classes, vocational training, and labor transfer.
Frank Dikötter’s “Red Dawn Over China”: When History Is Itself Anti-Communist
A must-read scholarly book, criticized by Chinese propaganda, illuminates the early CCP with rare archival depth and uncompromising independence.
Why “Cults” Resist Repression in China: A Major Study by Two PRC Scholars
Xi Chen and Xu Jing analyze thousands of judicial decisions and add fieldwork data to explain why campaigns against “xie jiao” remain a CCP priority but do not work.
China’s Silent Anniversary: How the Cultural Revolution’s Sixtieth Year Was Erased
The tragic event started between May and August 2026. Not only is there no celebration of the anniversary, but those commemorating it risk going to jail.









