Interview: Badiucao and Melissa Chan on Their Graphic Novel, You Must Take Part in Revolution
You Must Take Part in Revolution is a graphic novel by Badiucao, political cartoonist and former...
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New eBook: China Digital Times Lexicon, 20th Anniversary Edition
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...
Interview: Leta Hong Fincher on Advances and Setbacks in Women’s Rights Over the Past Decade
In 2014, Leta Hong Fincher published her first book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, which used the lens of home ownership and marital property rights to examine women’s rights in China and the...
Interview: Tsering Yangzom Lama on Colonialism, Exile, and the Importance of Listening to Tibetans’ Stories
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...
Interview: Joshua Kurlantzick on Beijing’s Global Media Offensive
Surveys have shown that Xi Jinping’s hardline foreign policy is increasingly unpopular abroad. Given the CCP’s mixed success using soft power to repair China’s image, party propagandists have increasingly resorted to sharper...
Interview: Jeremy Wallace on the Chinese State’s “Limited, Quantified Vision”
Jeremy Wallace, associate professor of Government at Cornell University, joined CDT to discuss his new book, Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China. In a wide-ranging conversation,...
Interview: Laura Murphy on Forced Labor in Xinjiang
Evidence of human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in Xinjiang has significantly increased over the past five years. As documented by researchers and human rights groups, the Chinese government has subjected...
Interview: Maria Repnikova on Chinese Soft Power
China’s soft power initiatives are often derided by Western observers as ineffective or counterproductive. Over a hundred Confucius Institutes in the U.S. and Europe have been targeted as arms of the Chinese state and forced to...
Full Transcript Interview: Jeremy Brown on June Fourth
This is the full transcript, edited lightly for grammar and clarity, of an interview with Jeremy Brown, a historian at Simon Fraser University, on his book “June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of...
Interview: Emeka Umejei on the “Unequal Equal” Relationship Between Chinese and African Media
Xi Jinping’s call in 2013 to “tell China’s story well” accelerated an existing trend of Chinese media fanning out across the globe to strengthen the country’s external propaganda and international discourse power. Media outlets...
Interview: Jeremy Brown on June Fourth
In China, 2021 has been a year for the history books or, more precisely, their revision. In March, the launch of a hotline to report “historical nihilism” presaged a broader campaign against challenges to the Party’s version of...
Q&A: Leta Hong Fincher on China’s Resilient Feminists
A former journalist, Leta Hong Fincher was the first American to receive a PhD in Sociology from...
1989: Background Reading
As we mark the 30th anniversary of the 1989 protest movement in China, and the subsequent military...
CDT Bookshelf: JFK Miller on “Trickle-down Censorship”
Between 2005 and 2011, Australian JFK Miller served as editor-in-chief of the Shanghai-based...
Han Han: The Problem With Me
Shanghai-born blogger, author, director, singer, restaurateur, and race car driver Han Han...
Author Details Unapproved Cuts to “Leftover Women”
The question of whether authors should accept censorship in exchange for publication within China...
David Bandurski on “Dragons in Diamond Village”
Award-winning writer and independent film producer David Bandurski is the editor of the China...
CDT Bookshelf: Liz Carter on “Let 100 Voices Speak”
Based in Washington, D.C., Liz Carter translates Chinese-language textbooks and writes at A Big...
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