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The State Administration of Radio and Television (formerly the State Administration of Press,...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 13, 2018
The State Administration of Radio and Television (formerly the State Administration of Press,...
by Cindy | Apr 6, 2018
The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television (SAPPRFT) issued a...
by Josh Rudolph | Jan 24, 2018
A government order to Chinese broadcasters issued last week, along with the hasty removal of...
by Cindy | Sep 14, 2016
China’s state media regulator has issued a new order requiring all live streaming platforms...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 22, 2016
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 11, 2015
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 12, 2015
Last week was China’s second annual “Awareness Week for National Cybersecurity,”...
by Josh Rudolph | Jan 20, 2015
Reuters’ Paul Carsten reports that Tencent has shut down 133 accounts on their popular...
by radish | Nov 14, 2014
At the Global Times, Cao Siqi reports on new Internet regulations banning a wide range of online...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 10, 2014
Amid an ongoing government campaign to increase central “Internet management”...
by Anne Henochowicz | May 22, 2014
As of May 22, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user”...
by Josh Rudolph | Apr 29, 2014
To mark the 20th anniversary of Internet access in China, Xinhua published an editorial last week...
by Josh Rudolph | Apr 16, 2014
The National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications, a branch of China’s main...
by Josh Rudolph | Nov 27, 2013
The 11th Annual National Sex Culture Festival (第十一届全国广州性文化节) was held in Guangzhou from November...
by Scott Greene | Oct 31, 2011
An official with China’s new Internet watchdog announced Monday that authorities recently shut down 50 microblogs for pornography and vulgarity, the latest in a series of crackdowns since the government began implementing...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 19, 2011
The talent show Super Girl has been forced off the air for allegedly exceeding maximum time limits, but the move may indicate a tightening of control over programming that promotes content the government deems offensive. From...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 16, 2010
Jeffrey Wasserstrom argues that recent campaigns by the CCP may owe as much to Chiang Kai-shek and Lee Kuan Yew as to Mao Zedong: There’s no question that Mao left an indelible mark on China (this may be the only point of...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 7, 2010
From AP: The court in the Guangdong province city of Jiangmen handed down the sentence to Huang Yizhong and fined him 100,000 yuan ($14,600), the official Xinhua News Agency said. Huang pleaded guilty to charges of copying and...