A Chinese blog called Love Ai Weiwei has posted translations of a series of tweets posted by Ai Weiwei between June 2009 and July 2010: 艾未未微博选登（2009.6—2010.7）Ai Weiwei（ @aiww ） Tweet Quotes 1 （June 2009—July 2010）1....
Stony Wang is a blogger based in Shanghai. The following is a collection of his tweets from February 25, detailing his experience “drinking tea” after the calls for a Jasmine Revolution circulated in Chinese...
Leira Hua tweets about drinking tea with national security officers.
Since the first tweet calling for “Jasmine Revolution” protests went viral on the Chinese Internet, the Chinese state machine has gone into overdrive to prevent this imagined uprising. Among other visible measures...
Recently, prominent human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang had a verbal exchange with Dong Yansheng, deputy director of Fengtai Section of Domestic Security Department of Beijing Public Security Bureau, when Pu was detained following...
CNN Money has the latest in the ongoing saga of Google in China: Google slightly altered its business strategy in China late Monday in an attempt to balance the company’s desire to keep its Chinese website with its goal of...
ChinaGeeks has translated selected tweets about the 21st anniversary of June 4th. The date “June 4th” or 64 has long been a taboo word on all Chinese websites and search engines. However, if one searches “May...
The Chinese blog Ministry of Truth has compiled a number of recent leaked orders issued by various propaganda departments over news reporting of recent events. Below is today’s directive, translated by CDT: May 14, 2010...
Below are CDT translations of a few additional Chinese language tweets about Google. More translations are here. See all tweets on the subject at #GoogleCN – @qhgy: Debasement is the password of Baidu; nobility the epitaph...
The twittersphere has exploded with the news of Google’s potential exit from the China market. CDT has translated selected tweets. Read all tweets at #Googlecn – @qhgy RT @Lyooooo: If Google leaves I won’t use...
From Global Voices: Charter 08 has been around for just over a year, reportedly gathered more than 10,000 signatures, and Liu Xiaobo, one of its founders, was sentenced to eleven years in prison on Christmas Day last week. While...
CNN iReport: During today’s protests in Iran, as always, Twitter saw a surge of tweets from protests in Iran giving updates on the latest developments and using Twitter for coordination purposes. However, this time around,...
Kaifu Lee (李开复) was the founding president of Google China, serving from July 2005 until September 4, 2009. He is currently the CEO of Innovation Works. His Twitter account had 733,906 followers at the time this blog post is...
This story (with video) was filed by CBS News Beijing producer Steven Jiang: He’s been compared to the Tom Hanks character in “The Terminal” by news media the world over, but Feng Zhenghu had never heard of the...
Residents of Panyu, Guangdong, are protesting plans to build a garbage incinerator in their city, and the actions are being tweeted live at the hashtag #pylj. @ellachou is translating many of the tweets into English. Photos have...
The upcoming visit of President Obama is a hot topic among Chinese Twitterers. Below are some selected examples, translated by CDT: @kirk1031 The latest instructions from the Ministry of Truth: All websites need to strictly...
Wen Yunchao (温云超), known by his online name Beifeng (北风), has just been elected Annual Outstanding (Chinese) Twitterer at the Twiscar ceremony, at the just completed Fifth Annual Chinese Blogger conference (CNbloggerCon), in...
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, KulturProjekte Berlin set up a virtual “Berlin Twitter Wall” where individuals could post their thoughts on the occasion through use of a Twitter...
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