Photo: Moment, National Day, Beijing, by Dimitry B.
Moment, National Day, Beijing, by Dimitry B. (CC BY 2.0)
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Sep 28, 2023
Moment, National Day, Beijing, by Dimitry B. (CC BY 2.0)
Read Moreby Arthur Kaufman | Sep 28, 2023
In the span of a week, court cases targeting individuals from a variety of backgrounds have demonstrated the repressive and arbitrary nature of the Chinese judicial system. Journalists, activists, intellectuals, and monks from...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Sep 28, 2023
A Weibo user who works as a computer programmer in Chengde, Hebei province, has reported that he was fined and had three years of income confiscated by the local public security bureau for using a virtual private network (VPN)...
Read Moreby Alexander Boyd | Sep 25, 2023
In July, the Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s powerful internet regulator, published a new law governing generative artificial intelligence products and mandating that they uphold core socialist values. A recent...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Sep 21, 2023
Untitled (Shanghai), by Hsiuan Boyen (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Sep 21, 2023
A photo of an American teacher introducing himself to a Chinese university class with a slide presentation proclaiming, “I am not a spy” has gone viral, eliciting much mirth online. It also highlights an increasingly tense...
Read Moreby Sophie Beach | Sep 18, 2023
Starting in March 2008, Tibetans across the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), Qinghai, Gansu, and Sichuan took to the streets to call for religious freedom and an end to oppressive political and social controls and economic...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Sep 15, 2023
Huifu E Road, by belfast16 (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Sep 15, 2023
By inadvertently “saying the quiet part out loud,” three recent media gaffes have touched off public debate on questions usually left unspoken. For some Chinese social media users, these blunders have provided an opportunity to...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Sep 7, 2023
Perhaps the only remaining traditional fishing dock in the urban area, Shenzhen, Guangdong, by...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Sep 7, 2023
Chinese debate over Japan’s release of treated wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant has thus far been characterized by disinformation, nationalism, and heavy online censorship. This in turn has fueled fear...
Read Moreby Alexander Boyd | Sep 5, 2023
Word(s) of the Week: “It is a bit ridiculous, but you must obey.” (是有点搞笑,但是你要服从, Shì yǒudiǎn gǎoxiào, dànshì nǐ yào fúcóng.) A policeman admitting that a traffic restriction “is a bit ridiculous, but you must obey”...
Read Moreby Alexander Boyd | Aug 30, 2023
The sudden and unexplained closure of a number of WeChat accounts dedicated to gay, trans, asexual, and feminist issues marks the latest setback for LGBTQ+ and women’s speech rights in China. The mass account closures happened...
Read Moreby Alexander Boyd | Aug 25, 2023
A Singapore paper’s publication of a blistering opinion piece criticizing Xi Jinping did not escape notice on Weibo, where netizens surreptitiously praised it. Titled “The Economy Is The Problem, Its Root Is Politics,” the...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Aug 25, 2023
Wuzhen Old City, Shanghai, China, by cattan2011 (CC BY 2.0)
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