30 Years Ago: Hu Yaobang, 73, Dies in China
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China,...
1989 top stories
Songs of the Week: “Goddess,” “The Square”
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short biographies of...
Five Years of Sensitive Words on June Fourth
“That year.” “This day.” “Today.” In previous years, these three phrases have all been blocked...
Translation: Love, a Decisive Moment
Li Jingrui published the reflection on love and her political awakening translated below to her...
Drawing the News: Sensitive Numbers
Today, to mark the 26th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests around...
Minitrue: Delete Global Times Commentary on June 4th Letter [Updated]
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Sensitive Words: 24th Anniversary of Tiananmen
In 2012, CDT identified 118 terms blocked from Weibo search results around the anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre. Many of those terms are now blocked again. There is also overlap between this list and Jason Ng’s...
Preventing Tiananmen Mourning at Shenzhen U.
Last year, Hong Kongers staged a “black shirt campaign” to mourn the victims of the Tiananmen Massacre, commemorated on June 4. The campaign has returned this year as well. Now it appears that Shenzhen University is...
Sensitive Words: Run-Up to Tiananmen Anniversary
As of May 25, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). Three Detained in Guangzhou After Applying for Tiananmen Commemoration: Li Weiguo, Xu Xiangrong, and Li Wensheng...
Empire Illustrated: Peng Liyuan at Tiananmen, 1989
Peng Liyuan, wife of the new Chinese president Xi Jinping, has lit up Weibo with her glamour. The censors have balked at discussions of her outfits, though their work has not done much to dampen “first lady fever.”...
Central Committee Notice Concerning Strengthening Propaganda and Ideology Work, July 28, 1989
As CDT readers know, we regularly post propaganda orders which we call Directives from the Ministry of Truth. These posts are only possible because of the Internet; journalists leak the orders online and CDT verifies them before...
That Year, These Years: Stories of June Fourth
By Li Xuewen Translated by Little Bluegill Original text here. That Year, I was twelve years old...
Sensitive Words: Tiananmen (2) (Update)
Update: See below the original post. Since CDT posted a long list of terms related to Tiananmen...
Did China’s Stock Market Protest Today?
Does Shanghai’s stock market have a democratic mind of its own? The Shanghai Stock Exchange’s Composite Index fell exactly 64.89 points on Tuesday, the 23rd anniversary anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre. The...
Sensitive Words: The Tiananmen Edition (Update)
Update: In addition to “today” (今天), “yesterday” (昨天) and...
Weibo Removes Candle Icon Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary
As the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre approached, in the wee hours of June 2 and 3...
Cartoon: The Spirit of June 4th, by Hexie Farm (蟹农场)
For his latest entry to his CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab of Hexie Farm honors those who were killed by military fire in the crackdown on protesters in Beijing in the early morning hours of June 4, 1989 by depicting their...
Chang Ping: China Needs to Address Causes of June 4
Chang Ping, a columnist and former senior editor of Southern Metropolis Weekly, writes in South China Morning Post about the People’s Daily editorial of April 26, 1989, which effectively declared the protests in Tiananmen...
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