Minitrue: “Voiceprint Analysis Can Recognize Swindlers”
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Anhui
A Chinese Street Photographer’s Rise to Fame
At TIME, Ye Ming profiles Liu Tao (刘涛), a Hefei, Anhui-based photographer whose playful yet...
Petitioner’s Testimony Describes Black Jail Torture
At South China Morning Post, Chris Luo reports on the testimony of an Anhui petitioner in the...
Minitrue: Song of the Civilized Internet
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
China’s Cram School From Hell
Foreign Policy reports on Maotanchang High School, a militant mountain retreat of a cram school in...
Ministry of Truth: Flipping Cars in Anhui Province
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Sensitive Words: Seven Don’t Mentions and More
As of May 10, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). Migrant Worker’s Death: 22-year-old Yuan Liya, who came to Beijing from Anhui Province, fell to her death...
Ministry of Truth: Beijing Mall “Suicide” Jump
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Beijing Internet Supervision Office: Urgent Notice: Websites which have already posted news about the...
Sensitive: “Anhui Girl,” Deng Xiaoping’s Grandson
As of May 9, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). • Anhui girl (安徽女子): Yuan Liya, a poor young woman from central Anhui Province, died on May 3 after falling from...
Police Quell Beijing Protest after Woman’s Death
A large protest broke out near a shopping mall in southern Beijing on Wednesday following the death last week of a 22-year-old migrant worker, according to Edward Wong of The New York Times, who reported that hundreds of police...
Sensitive Words: Beijing Protest After “Suicide”
As of May 8, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). Around 4 a.m. on May 3, young Anhui migrant Yuan Liya fell to her death from the fourth floor of the Jingwen...
A Son’s Guilt Over the Mother He Sent to Her Death
The Guardian’s Tania Branigan profiles 60-year-old Zhang Hongbing, whose denunciation of his mother during the Cultural Revolution led to her execution. Zhang is now trying to make amends for his role in his mother’s...
China Braces For End Of World
With the apocalypse now less than ten days away, China has been joining in the global festival of panic, resignation and denial at the imminent extinction of humanity. At China Real Time Report, Chao Deng described some Chinese...
Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (22)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Orgy Photos Making Awkward Waves on Web
A series of more than a hundred leaked online photos featuring five people engaged in group sex has put the Communist Party on the defensive, writes The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos, who puts the awkward situation in...
Directives from the Ministry of Truth: Naked Officials
The following example of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by...
Heywood Murder Trial Ends Without Verdict (Updated)
Bo Xilai’s wife Gu Kailai and family aide Zhang Xiaojun stood trial for the murder of Neil Heywood on Thursday. The proceedings lasted only seven hours, and no verdict or sentence has yet been announced. From John Ruwitch...
U.K. Officials Granted Access to Gu Kailai Trial
Bloomberg news reports that the Chinese government will allow U.K. officials to attend the murder trial of Gu Kailai, set to begin on Thursday in the eastern city of Hefei: Two officials from the U.K. Embassy in Beijing will be...
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