While China’s athletes won glory in Paris at this year’s Olympics and Paralympics, there was widespread agreement on Chinese social media that the country’s reporters did not. Bloggers and athletes alike rolled their...
Prague-based Sinopsis has published a new investigation by Kuek Ser Kuang Keng, Chan Wei See, and Wong Kai Hui into the propagation of pro-Russian narratives about the invasion of Ukraine...
With the U.S. presidential election looming ever closer, an article in Foreign Affairs from Johns...
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Hyping the censorship of other accounts will also trigger censorship."
"Hilarious: censored for discussing censorship."
"Next they’ll be censoring anyone who 'hypes' the 'censorship hypers.'”— Quotes from Weibo users mocking Weibo's recent suspension of accounts that mentioned—or "hyped"—the suspension of other accounts for violating Weibo’s numerous but unwritten political taboos.
The plight of China’s delivery drivers is front-of-mind for the Chinese public. In August, CDT translated an account of one courier’s death in the summer heat, while a viral photograph of a Meituan driver kneeling before a security guard drew attention to the indignities many delivery drivers are forced to suffer. This week, a 55-year-old driver famous locally for his work ethic died while making deliveries. Video of the deceased driver, who had appeared to be sleeping on the back of his bike, went viral—spurring an outpouring of tributes to the deceased, and to the profession in...
Despite a laudable performance in other sports at this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games,...
The violent repression of the 1989 student protests scarred Chinese society. The campaign to purge...
Over the summer, five scandals dominated Chinese social media: the stabbing of a Chinese school...
The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs has unveiled a revised draft law that would make it simpler...
A photograph of a delivery driver forced to kneel before a neighborhood security guard in Hangzhou...
The work environment for journalists in Hong Kong continues to deteriorate. Last month, Stand News editors were convicted of sedition. This week, the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) revealed a widespread harassment campaign against the city’s journalists, as announced in a press conference by HKJA Chairperson Selina Cheng. The Hong Kong Free Press reported on this “systematic and organized attack” against reporters from at least 13 media outlets in Hong Kong: Selina Cheng, chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), said during a press conference on Friday that...
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In a rare event on Monday, the Chinese government has freed an American citizen who it had detained for nearly 20 years. The citizen, David Lin, was a pastor who was born in China and then lived in California, where he has now safely returned. He is one of three Americans that the U.S. government considers “wrongfully detained” in China. His release signals a potential improvement in the deteriorating bilateral relations between the two countries. Eric Tucker and Didi Tang from the Associated Press provided more background on Lin’s detention: David Lin, 68, was detained after he entered...
The work environment for journalists in Hong Kong continues to deteriorate. Last month, Stand News...
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While China’s athletes won glory in Paris at this year’s Olympics and Paralympics, there was widespread agreement on Chinese social media that the country’s reporters did not. Bloggers and athletes alike rolled their eyes at the inanity of the Chinese press corps’ questions to competitors. One particular flashpoint was a comment made during a livestream by Nanfang Daily’s Zhu Xiaolong, who questioned 17-year-old diving gold-medalist Quan Hongchan’s educational level and emotional maturity. But the storm over Zhu’s comment was a microcosm of broader discussion about the news media, their role...
The plight of China’s delivery drivers is front-of-mind for the Chinese public. In August, CDT...
Despite a laudable performance in other sports at this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games,...
The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs has unveiled a revised draft law that would make it simpler...
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While China’s athletes won glory in Paris at this year’s Olympics and Paralympics, there was widespread agreement on Chinese social media that the country’s reporters did not. Bloggers and athletes alike rolled their eyes at the inanity of the Chinese press corps’ questions to competitors. One particular flashpoint was a comment made during a livestream by Nanfang Daily’s Zhu Xiaolong, who questioned 17-year-old diving gold-medalist Quan Hongchan’s educational level and emotional maturity. But the storm over Zhu’s comment was a microcosm of broader discussion about the news media, their role...
Prague-based Sinopsis has published a new investigation by Kuek Ser Kuang Keng,...
With the U.S. presidential election looming ever closer, an article in Foreign Affairs from Johns...
The work environment for journalists in Hong Kong continues to deteriorate. Last month, Stand News...
The Chinese government’s recent detentions of two outspoken critics—visual artist Gao Zhen and...
The violent repression of the 1989 student protests scarred Chinese society. The campaign to purge...
The work environment for journalists in Hong Kong continues to deteriorate. Last month, Stand News editors were convicted of sedition. This week, the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) revealed a widespread harassment campaign against the city’s journalists, as announced in a press conference by HKJA Chairperson Selina Cheng. The Hong Kong Free Press reported on this “systematic and organized attack” against reporters from at least 13 media outlets in Hong Kong: Selina Cheng, chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), said during a press conference on Friday that...
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In the two weeks since the Ministry of Public Security and the Cyberspace Administration of China published a draft law proposing an ostensibly voluntary national Internet ID program and opened it up for public comment, there has been intense platform censorship of online discussion and articles about the proposal. By last week, Weibo was already blocking numerous related search terms (“national Internet ID,” “government plans to issue Internet ID numbers to all users,” “WeChat, Taobao, Xiaohongshu, others begin beta-testing national Internet ID system,” among many others) and most verified...
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On September 12, 2003, John Battelle published the first post on chinadigitaltimes.net: Here’s what a Google Search on “china weblog” yields, I’m looking forward to seeing ours at the top soon! China’s online population at the start of that year was nearly 60 million. Ten years later, it was fast approaching 600 million, and now, after 20, it is well over a billion. This new completely revised and hugely expanded update to our ebook series, formerly known as “the Grass Mud Horse Lexicon,” aims to capture something of the enormous explosion of online speech that accompanied this growth, with...
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Last week, the Chinese government announced that it will raise the retirement age. The long-expected move is deeply unpopular but, the government holds, necessary to relieve strain on China’s work force and pension funds. The phased changes will raise the retirement age for men from 60 to 63 in 2040. Women in white-collar jobs will be expected to work to 58, while women in blue-collar jobs will now be expected to work until 55. At The New York Times, Vivian Wang reported on the change: The government most likely realized it had no more time to delay, said Alfred Wu, a professor of public...
Across China, many women with rural hukou are systematically denied lucrative village land rights....
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While China’s athletes won glory in Paris at this year’s Olympics and Paralympics, there was widespread agreement on Chinese social media that the country’s reporters did not. Bloggers and athletes alike rolled their eyes at the inanity of the Chinese press corps’ questions to competitors. One particular flashpoint was a comment made during a livestream by Nanfang Daily’s Zhu Xiaolong, who questioned 17-year-old diving gold-medalist Quan Hongchan’s educational level and emotional maturity. But the storm over Zhu’s comment was a microcosm of broader discussion about the news media, their role...
Last week, the Chinese government announced that it will raise the retirement age. The...
The plight of China’s delivery drivers is front-of-mind for the Chinese public. In August, CDT...
Despite a laudable performance in other sports at this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games,...
Across China, many women with rural hukou are systematically denied lucrative village land rights....
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