Viral Video Triggers Debate Over Patriotic Education in China

Oiwan Lam  |  Global Voices A video showing a schoolboy crying while reciting the biography of communist heroin Lui Hulan went viral online last week in China. The boy was reading the textbook in a “crying tone”, a recital skill widely taught in schools, and ended up bursting into tears while his classmates burst into laughter. Reactions […]

Chinese Lawmakers Seek to Protect Dead Communist Heroes With New Law

Jack Hu  |  Global Voices China’s national parliamentary body recently passed legislation for the country’s first expansive civil code, which will help judges decide legal disputes on property, contracts, inheritance, and marriage. The new code, which is expected to be adopted in 2020, builds on the few existing civil laws in the communist country. Of the current 126 additions tabled by the […]