The ten censored essays collected below are a first draft of an unauthorized history of the extraordinary year 2022, compiled by CDT Chinese editors. Toward the end of the year, discontent over the zero-COVID policy burgeoned...
A solitary protestor hung two banners calling for Xi Jinping to be removed from office and exhorting the populace to “Be citizens, not slaves,” an extremely rare act of overt political defiance on the eve of the 20th Party...
Earlier this month, CDT reported that Zhejiang had published the names of individuals and businesses found Zhejiang had published the names of individuals and businesses guilty of circumventing China’s Great Firewall, listing...
This week, Chinese magazine People (Renwu 人物) published an interview with Ai Fen, the director of the emergency department at Wuhan Central Hospital. In the interview, which was quickly censored, Ai detailed her censure by...
Last week, the semi-official Cyber Security Association of China sent a request for content...
In 2013, Google chairman Eric Schmidt predicted that widespread encryption offered “a real...
The developer of an open source censorship circumvention project known as Shadowsocks was...
Filmmaker Laura Poitras—who is best known for receiving classified documents from and then...
This week, Eva Dou and Alistair Barr of the Wall Street Journal wrote an article describing the...
This past week has seen a number of foreign websites and online services disrupted in China....
At The New York Times, former New Yorker China correspondent Evan Osnos explains why he decided...
Jonathan Stempel at Reuters reports that Baidu Inc has defeated a U.S. lawsuit by pro-democracy...
When up to two-thirds of Chinese Internet traffic was suddenly redirected to a handful of websites...
With the Year of the Horse beginning next week, The South China Morning Post reports from Hong...
An increasing number of Internet users in China are turning to Lantern, a US-sponsored computer...
Early Monday morning, former CCTV producer Wang Qinglei posted an open letter criticizing the...
Exiled Chinese author Ma Jian, whose newest novel The Dark Road saw its North American release yesterday, gave a very personal interview to the Daily Beast. The interview touches on everything from the...
British Indian author Salman Rushdie became an icon of free expression after his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses garnered him a fatwā from Ayatollah Khomeini, followed by countless death threats. Coinciding with the release of the...
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