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”)...
The exposure of faulty brake-pedal brackets in the Maextro V800, a luxury EV manufactured by Huawei and JAC, has resulted in a wave of online censorship, deleted opinion pieces, a high-level government investigation, and what...
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,...
While "positive energy" prevails in China’s domestic news reporting, this is far from true with coverage of foreign countries. To make things at home seem even rosier, there is a steady stream of sensational...
Fears are growing for labor-rights advocate and citizen journalist Feng Rui (also known by his pen name 小五, Xiǎo Wǔ), who has reportedly fallen ill due to lengthy interrogations while in detention. Feng was detained in Guangzhou...
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”)...
The post below, from WeChat account 白桦视界 Báihuà Shìjiè, or “White Birch Vision,” is a censored response to new restrictions on drone ownership and storage within the city of Beijing. Registration requirements and flight...
In mid-September, a man was arrested for stabbing and wounding an unknown number of women outside a hotpot restaurant in the GOGO Xintiandi shopping plaza in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. The man appeared to target...
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...
Like their counterparts elsewhere, Chinese news media face mounting challenges such as commercial headwinds and pressure to adapt to new technologies like short video. These are compounded in the Chinese context by political...
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”)...
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