From January to November, nearly 92,000 cases of formalism were investigated nationwide, a significant increase from the previous year's 46,000 cases, according to data from the Central Commission ...

However, now that the central authorities are restricting the number of documents in order to clamp down on formalism, they pick up their phones to ask their subordinates to do the same.

The problem of “formalism” (形式主义) in the Chinese bureaucracy is certainly in the mind of Xi Jinping. The July 30, 2024 Politburo meeting, the first meeting after the Third Plenum ...

What was Zombie Formalism? If you’re not an avid follower of art-world trends, you may have no idea. Don’t worry: From an aesthetic standpoint, you didn’t miss much. In an economic sense ...

As one might imagine, the recommendations center around using common sense to speed up decisions in a system plagued by formalism and delays. In a phone interview, Moukawsher, who announced in ...

Max Kozloff, a critic who influentially collapsed the divide between art and politics that was erected by formalists who came before him, died on April 6 at 91. His death was announced this week ...