Following the death of Liu Xiaobo, China has taken a heavy-handed approach to preventing commemorations of Liu’s death, with the Chinese government ordering the cremation of Liu’s body and the dispersal of his ashes at sea... Read More
The bizarre news that China plans on commemorating Taiwan’s 228 Massacre is representative of Chinese attempts to assert claims over Taiwan by incorporating Taiwanese history in Chinese history writ large. This is nothing new... Read More
Recent news that KMT chairperson Hung Hsiu-Chu will be visiting China next month, with a likely meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping to take place, is not surprising... Read More
Tens of thousands of mining workers in Shuangyashan city of Heilongjiang province in China have clashed with the police after four days of demonstrations, demanding the state-owned mining company to distribute wages owed to workers... Read More
With the recent arrests of Guangzhou labor activists, we see where the authoritarian Chinese state acts in defense of capital, with workers thrown under the bus by a state which nonetheless claims an ideology centered around worker rule... Read More
In early August, New Bloom interviewed Wuer Kaixi, longtime democracy activist and Chinese dissident about his run for legislator in Taichung as an independent.... Read More
The readers of Taiwan usually are familiar with the horrors happening in China under Mao, but there is seldom an exploration of how Mao’s betrayal of Marxism resulted in these horrors.... Read More
