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• A Birthday Letter to the People’s Republic (ChinaFile) by Yangyang Cheng
• When Truth Is Hard to Love (Chinese Storytellers) by Kiki Zhao
• China’s Government Wants You to Think All Mainlanders View Hong Kong the Same Way. They Don’t. (ChinaFile) by Kiki Zhao
• Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
•  How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression (American Political Science Review) by Jennifer Pan et al
• Jessica Chen Weiss
• Mainland Chinese Sneak Into Hong Kong’s Protests—to Support the Cause (WSJ) by Wenxin Fan
• Xibai Xu on Twitter
• Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
• YouTube channel “Arrow Factory” (Jianchang shipin 箭厂视频)
• Why democracy still wins: A critique of Eric X. Li’s “A tale of two political systems” (TED Blog) by Yasheng Huang
• WeChat Account Guoke 果壳
• Noon Story (正午故事)

About Kiki Zhao: Kiki Zhao is a freelance writer based in China and the U.S. Previously, she was a journalist in Beijing, where she also attended college. She grew up in northeastern China and attended graduate schools in the U.S. She holds an M.A. from Yale University Council of East Asian Studies, where she was a recipient of University Fellowship. Professionally, she is affiliated with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies as an Associate in Research. She can be reached at kiki.tianqi.zhao@gmail.com

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Photo: Screenshot of a post on Zhihu 知乎. (Translated: What moment moved you so much, that your eyes filled with tears for your motherland?)