Sensitive Words: Singers and Tigers and Bloggers (Oh My)
As of January 29, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
Jan 29, 2015
As of January 29, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
Oct 24, 2014
Zhou Xiaoping, the young, nationalistic blogger who shook hands with President Xi Jinping at the...
Oct 21, 2014
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Feb 7, 2013
Ping Fu, CEO of 3D software developer Geomagic and innovation adviser to President Obama, released her English-language memoir Bend, Not Break on December 31. The book traces her journey from oppressed youth during China’s...
Oct 9, 2012
With the announcement this week of the 2012 Nobel Prizes, the BBC’s Damian Grammaticas revisits the situation of imprisoned 2010 Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and his wife, Liu Xia. Liu Xia remains under strict house...
May 24, 2012
As of May 15, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user”...
Feb 4, 2012
Danwei’s Joel Martinson chronicles the war of words between author-blogger-racing driver Han Han and merciless scientific fraud slayer Fang Zhouzi. Battle lines have been drawn, with writers, publishers, cartoonists and...
Sep 21, 2010
China’s Scientific & Academic Integrity Watch reports (h/t Danwei) that an arrest has been made in the attack against scientific fraud investigator Fang Shimin, otherwise known as Fang Zhouzi: Beijing Police Bureau...
Sep 9, 2010
In The Humanist, Sam Geall looks at recent cases of academic or scientific fraud in China, and the “science cops,” such as Fang Zhouzi and Fang Xuanchang, who are trying to keep the facts in check. The article...
Aug 29, 2010
Fang Zhouzi, a campaigner against academic and scientific fraud who recently led the campaign to expose alleged fraud by business leader Tang Jun, was apparently attacked outside his home, according to China Daily: Fang Zhouzi,...
Dec 7, 2008
In the post-Olympics China, another round of media crackdown is clearly underway. Still, the Southern Metropolis Weekly just profiled 20 of the most influential bloggers and commentators in China’s cyberspace, who possess...
Nov 15, 2008
From the China’s Scientific & Academic Integrity Watch blog: The crisis of tainted food is still spreading deeper and wider in China. Melamine contamination is now found in milk, dairy products, candies, and chicken...
Sep 3, 2006
From Raymond Zhou blog: A philosopher has thrown down the gauntlet and asked a science maverick to a duel. Since we are living in the 21st century, to make it “civilized,” in the philosopher’s words, whoever loses the contest will commit suicide “in a civilized manner.” You might think this is a plot from a […]