democracy

tealeafnation.com — View the best images from Wukan's election available on Weibo, with captions showing netizen reaction.

www.guardian.co.uk — A Chinese court has handed down a 10-year jail sentence to Chen Xi, the second dissident in four days to be convicted of inciting subversion through online essays.

seeingredinchina.com — I don't always read the local papers, and for the most part my Chinese co-workers don't either. So when something big comes to Nanjing, we don't usually hear about it until it has passed, but we can always tell that something is approaching.

www.chineselawandsociety.com — Here Chinese Law and Society examines how the criticisms of Amy Chua's "Tiger Mom" meme have been misplaced, not because criticism isn't warranted, but because the standards of measurement have been couched in economic and state power terms, rather than in what they should be, how does education rear up citizens of a particular state?

www.ministryoftofu.com — Liu Ping was a worker at a state-owned iron and steel plant in the city of Xinyu, Jiangxi Province. As a full-time employee, she had been enjoying the legal benefits of paid leave and overtime pay. Therefore, the company, in order to depress salary and arbitrarily fire workers like her, forced her off her post in the name of “internal retirement” in 2009.