Own goal by U.S.

One of China's most influential popular historians, 笑蜀 has just penned this essay in 中国民间档案馆 | China Unofficial Archives on a key magazine in the 1980s, its calls for political reform, and why those efforts could never be realized. chinaunofficialarchives.substack.com/p/784

Thanks to National Committee on U.S.-China Relations for this opportunity to talk with one of the great China-Vatican watchers of our time, francesco sisci I like the compact format, which forced us to be concise!

80年代的“中道”为何失败？ 本期民间档案馆简报，笑蜀为读者们解析胡耀邦与《青年论坛》的命运交错： chinaunofficialarchives.substack.com/p/784

“中国人权律师在公民权利意识高涨、维权运动兴起的年代走上前台，以个案冲撞现有法律制度，探索法治与自由，进而踏足政治与信仰案件的禁地。这注定是一条崎岖、荆棘之路。” 江雪 Jiang Xue 《中国人权律师二十年：直道而行，法治火种摇曳不灭》 women4china.substack.com/p/human-rights…

Excellent piece from The Ideas Letter on China's independent media: theideasletter.org/essay/chinas-i…

A sad but well-deserved prize from CPJ Asia for the imprisoned Chinese journalist #DongYuyu cpj.org/awards/cpjs-20…

Our newsletter from June highlights Dong's influential 1998 book, Political China. Read here in both Chinese and English: chinaunofficialarchives.substack.com/p/d5a

編者按：王赓（1895-1942），一位被历史尘埃掩盖的民国才俊，其孙女王冬妮在《江河行地

To learn more about Zhang Zhan and read her words and those from her supporters, check out our (highly popular) newsletter from August: chinaunofficialarchives.substack.com/p/b0c

Another 中国民间档案馆 | China Unofficial Archives scoop. Two weeks ago it published a two-part account of the most famous dissident of the Mao era, Lin Zhao. Today it reveals that it's archived 1000s of hour of erased TV footage by Hong Kong's fiesty broadcaster, RTHK. 加油！ chinaunofficialarchives.substack.com/p/be5

又一条 中国民间档案馆 | China Unofficial Archives 独家猛料！两周前它推出毛时代最著名异议者林昭的重磅两篇文章。今天又爆出猛料：已经保存了香港电台上千小时被抹去的珍贵录像。加油！ chinaunofficialarchives.substack.com/p/be5

中国民间档案馆已存档上千集香港电台已下架的节目，以方便公众观看和学者研究。 欢迎大家在本期简报了解详情： chinaunofficialarchives.substack.com/p/be5

China Unofficial Archives has archived over a thousand episodes of TV programs from Hong Kong's public broadcaster RTHK. Most of the episodes are now removed or hard to access. We hope their availability can help more people learn about Hong Kong's history and provide

New in Foreign Affairs: @JeffreyPrescott & I argue that China is accelerating plans to exploit U.S. retreat under Trump. Xi aims to establish China as the fulcrum of an emerging multipolar world. He's now advancing a new, more active diplomatic strategy. foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…