The Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource that helps people better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries. The Council takes no institutional positions on matters of policy.

The council publishes articles, backgrounders, podcasts and transcripts of seminars as well as links to media articles on a very wide range of issues related to China.

Examples of articles:

Olympic Pressure on China (by Preeti Bhattacharji and Carin Zissis)
An overview of criticisms levelled at the Chinese authorities in connection with the Olympic Games.

Nationalism in China (by Jayshree Bajoria)
Nationalism in China increasingly fills the role Maoism played before China embraced capitalism.

The Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It does not take positions on policy issues.

Pew Research Center works through eight different project and addresses different aspects of China and Chinese life across these projects.

Examples of reports:

Religion in China on the Eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympics
(from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life)

How the World sees China
(from Pew Global Atttitudes Project)

Few in China Complain About Internet Controls
(From Pew Internet & American Life Project)