By inadvertently “saying the quiet part out loud,” three recent media gaffes have touched off public debate on questions usually left unspoken. For some Chinese social media users, these blunders have provided an opportunity to...
As of June 7, the Twitter account belonging to Bei Zhenying, wife of well-known blogger program-think (whose real name is Ruan Xiaohuan), appears to have been deleted. The abrupt deletion of her relatively new account...
The following instructions have been leaked and distributed online. For June 3rd, 4th, 5th: all official accounts are forbidden from posting content, and all key opinion leaders are banned from posting brand-related advertising...
Two years and four months after whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang’s death from COVID-19, the “Wailing Wall” that emerged in the comments under his last Weibo post continues to serve as a repository for the hopes, dreams,...
While many look forward to relaxing during the December holiday season, the CCP typically leverages foreign distraction during this period to crack down on Chinese human rights defenders. Among those targeted in a recent wave of...
Jiangsu Unicom, a subsidiary of state-owned conglomerate China Unicom, incurred online anger after posting, on two consecutive days, a recipe for egg fried rice with ginger on Weibo. The seemingly innocuous recipe landed the...
On July 1, the Chinese Communist Party will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding. The Party was actually founded on July 23 but the mixup, although acknowledged, has never been rectified—perhaps because the date has a...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Last week, according to the U.S. government-backed Radio Free Asia, domestic security officers in...
The Chinese Communist Party’s “Great Helmsman” Mao Zedong died on September 9,...
Reuters’ Sui-Lee Wee reports that prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang was placed in criminal...
The New York Times’ Chris Buckley talks to historian Steven I. Levine about the Tiananmen...
Chris Buckley reports for The New York Times that “the Communist revolutionary who...
Tuesday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Xi Zhongxun, father of current president Xi...
Today marked the 23rd anniversary of the military crackdown on protesters in Beijing, and, as usual, the government kept a tight rein on online speech, the media, and political dissidents and activists. More surprising was the...
As the one-year anniversary of the July 5 Xinjiang riots approaches, police are on high alert. From the Associated Press: Teams of police armed with guns and batons patrolled streets in the western region of Xinjiang on Sunday,...
NPR is running a three-part series to mark the upcoming 60th anniversary of the PRC: As the country approaches its anniversary, NPR asks three of China’s most astute observers for their perspectives. They are best-selling...
For China Media Project, David Bandurski reads between the lines of official media reporting of the 20th anniversary of June 4th: The Beijing Daily article paints an important, if impressionistic, picture of current efforts to...
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