The recent death of a graduate student at China’s prestigious Fudan University, allegedly poisoned by a jealous roommate, evoked memories of the 1995 Zhu Ling case, reignited online fury that the case remains unsolved, and...
Ping Fu, CEO of 3D software developer Geomagic and innovation adviser to President Obama, released her English-language memoir Bend, Not Break on December 31. The book traces her journey from oppressed youth during China’s...
For The Atlantic, Jessica Levine explores the online grassroots sleuthing phenomenon known as “human flesh searching”, in which platforms allow netizens to work together to expose the wrongdoings of officials and...
China implemented a new tort law on July 1. From Xinhua: China’s newly-implemented tort law, the country’s first special law on liability for acts of infringement, is likely to further safeguard individuals’...
Outlook Magazine (瞭望) covers the conflicting views of China’s human flesh search engines, or the use of Internet searches to monitor or expose individuals. Translated by CDT: At the end of May, “Zhejiang...
Financial Times profiles Internet activist Wu Gan, aka “The Butcher”: From his Beijing office, which he has dubbed “the Abattoir”, he spends most days scanning online newspaper and blog reports for hints of scandals,...
The New York Times Magazine takes a look at China’s “human flesh search engines”: AT THE BEIJING headquarters of Mop, Ben Du, the site’s head of interactive communities, told me that the Chinese term for...
This week’s featured article in New Weekly (新周刊) focuses on the Internet in China. Part 1 of their feature is a highlight of the “Best of the Web 2009,” chosen by the magazine, industry insiders, and netizens....
An article on Asia Times argues that China has made “enormous progress on freedom of speech,” especially on the Internet and looks at a recent debate over protection of privacy rights online: To a certain extent,...
Danwei shares about the documentary film Human Flesh Search Engine: The second part of Human Flesh Search Engine, a short documentary film directed by Luis A. Tapia is now online at Vimeo and at Daedalum Films’ website....
ChinaGeeks translates an essay by law professor He Weifang about “the difficult relation between the power of the internet and the judiciary system”: First of all, administering the internet is simply not like...
As previously reported on CDT, Chinese government regulators have ordered Google to suspend some of its search functions due to the pornographic content available through its search engine. More details from the New York Times:...
Several prominent netizens selected by the Yunnan Provincial Publicity Department to the committee investigating Li Qiaoming’s death in detention – what has become known online as the ‘eluding the cat’...
The following commentary is from overseas Chinese news site boxun.com, translated by CDT’s Lucy Lin: A post about the corruption situation titled, “What Kind of Communist is Mr. Chen Hua?,” circulated...
From Time Magazine: A photograph of an official from the land bureau of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, came under scrutiny in December after it began circulating on the Internet. Netizens pointed out that Zhou...
From AFP: Authorities in a Chinese province where Internet users exposed an allegedly corrupt official’s taste for luxury have made posting such information illegal, state media reported on Tuesday. The ruling Communist...
USA Today looks at the phenomenon of so-called human flesh search engines: Vigilant Internet users spotted news photos of a housing official and posted heated online discussions about his $15,000 Swiss watch and $22-a-pack...
From the Straits Times Singapore, via themalaysianinsider.com: The cyber hunters who roam China’s online space could soon become the hunted themselves. The Chinese legislature is deliberating a new law to curb the excesses...
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