Culture & the Arts

Community of Users Mourn App Shutdown

The State Administration of Radio and Television (formerly the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television) has ordered news and entertainment app parent company Bytedance to shut down Neihan Duanzi, its popular joke-sharing app. This follows a similar order for the company to clean up Jinri Toutiao, its video app. The official announcement about Neihan Duanzi read in part (translated by Global Voices): During the supervision of Toutiao’s ...

April 13, 2018

Minitrue: Stop Showing “Amazing China” Film

The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Urgent notice ...

April 24, 2018

Translation: Banned App Users’ Anthem Harmonized

“In This World” was a song by Chinese singer Wang Jianfang. In 2017, the song was a top hit on many music apps. Focusing on the grievances ...

April 18, 2018

Carrot & Stick: How Beijing Controls its Diaspora

Since Xi Jinping became president in 2012, China has increasingly been criticized for attempting to manipulate its diaspora in order to support ...

April 14, 2018

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