List of possible embarrassing revelations in Zhao Ziyang Memoirs – Humour

At last. Perhaps this is the beginning of a reckoning long overdue. Zhao's first-hand knowledge from the inside 20 years ago is going to make for compulsive reading for most, uncomfortable reading for others.

This is why Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo came back. The Chinese pair finally won the Olympic gold medal that eluded them for so many years Monday night, a prize so compelling it lured them out of the cozy life of a happily retired married couple. It wasn't the best skate of their career, but it was good enough for gold - and that was all that mattered.

A publisher in Hong Kong was ordered to halt publishing of Li Peng's memoirs. The print run of 20,000 copies has been stopped.

Amy Sommers is a Partner in the Shanghai office of law firm Squire Sanders, and a frequent speaker on various China-related topics.

She's appearing at the Shanghai Literary Festival this weekend (Sunday 7 March, 2pm), where she'll be giving a talk entitled China's Literary Legacy: Forgotten Memoirs; Outsiders Looking In.

Ai Weiwei is under investigation for spreading pornography, the Chinese artist has said, as the authorities turned their attention from political subversion and tax evasion to online images of nudity.

ChinaGeeks's review of Zhao Ziyang's memoir. The short version of our review: It's OK.

China's Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo can almost touch the Olympic title that has eluded them in three other games. They used a world best in the short program Sunday night to get as close as the width of a skate blade. If it takes another record to grab the all-elusive gold at the Vancouver Olympics, well, they have the goods to do it.

He’s been called 赵C (Zhao C) ever since he was born 23 years ago, but now Mr Zhao has been ordered to change his name by authorities. The reason given is that “C” is not a Chinese character and is causing problems for the new Chinese identity card system which can only deal with Chinese characters.

The People's Daily left Hu Yaobang's death off of their "today in history" entry for April 15th. Blogger Hu Yong noted it, and then commenters discovered the names "Hu Yaobang" and "Zhao Ziyang" were being censored in the comments.