The November 6 release date for the long-delayed COVID-themed film “Angel in White,” starring Andy Lau and Yang Zishan, came and went this weekend. The film itself did not appear, though, and its release date is now listed on...
Last week saw the eruption of what The New York Times described as "one of the more improbable football-related storylines of recent times." French footballer Kylian Mbappé was widely condemned in China over a comment...
CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message “404: content not found”)...
Frank Darabont’s iconic 1994 film "The Shawshank Redemption" is no newcomer to China. Long established as users’ top-rated movie on IMDb, Shawshank holds the same rank on China’s Douban. On one hand,...
The post translated below, from WeChat account 守一手记 (Shǒuyī Shǒujì, “Shouyi’s Notes”), examines conflicting attitudes and selective scrutiny on Chinese social media when it comes to foreign views of China. Foreign media coverage...
Twenty students at Harbin Engineering University (HEU) were given disciplinary warnings for using unauthorized VPNs to circumvent the Great Firewall in order to access overseas websites and conduct academic research. The...
CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message “404: content not found”)...
Sophia Huang Xueqin, a journalist whose reporting on human rights and sexual abuse helped to galvanize China’s #MeToo movement, was scheduled to be released from prison last Friday, after completing a five-year sentence for...
The following is an introduction to and contextualization of some of the specific entries and broader categories included in CDT’s archived “ByteDance Lexicon of Sensitive Terms.” The lexicon, which contains some 5,241...
On Monday, the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism announced the conclusion of its investigation into an operatic performance by comedian Guo Degang back in July, and said that it would levy hefty fines on the...
At The New York Times, Li Yuan writes that Beijing’s efforts to cultivate an air of uniform "positive energy" online have been looking increasingly strained: Discontent has occasionally erupted after disasters,...
A schlocky, ultra-low-budget Chinese animated film with the title “The Cow Comes” or “Here Comes the Cow” (牛来, Niú Lái) has become the surprise hit of the summer, with its clumsy (but not AI-generated) animation, goofy plot, and...
News that comedian Guo Degang is under investigation by the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism for a playful riff on an old “red tune” has set alarm bells ringing about the state of artistic censorship in China. While...
The rise of artificial intelligence and the widespread use of domestic and international large language models (LLMs) have had a profound impact, for better and worse, on the work of Chinese investigative journalists and news...
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