The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Carry out a comprehensive cleanup of all content related to the band “Slap” (delete...
The slogans that make up the “12 Core Socialist Values” are a common sight on Chinese streets, as they were—for a tumultuous few hours this weekend—on London’s famous Brick Lane, where a Chinese student at the Royal...
If the lesson last week was “Don’t laugh about the PLA,” this week’s message seems to be, “Don’t even crack a smile.” First, stand-up comedian Li Haoshi (stage name “House”) was accused of defaming the People’s Liberation...
On March 25th, Guangdong-based rapper Liu Wanli, better known as Vyan (pronounced “vee-yen”) was invited to appear on “One Seat,” a lecture program that has been called “China’s TED Talks.” In his...
Hong Kong’s film censors have been instructed to begin censoring films on national security grounds, making the city’s vaunted film industry the latest victim of spreading political censorship under the Hong Kong...
At Vanity Fair, May Jeong profiles Chinese movie megastar Fan Bingbing, describing her four-month...
At The New York Times, Wang Dan, a former leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, looks at...
Ningxia’s Yinchuan Musuem of Contemporary Art has removed the work of artist-activist Ai...
Chinese K-pop stars have weighed in on their home country’s claims in the South China Sea,...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Hong Kong’s M+ art museum, under construction and set to open in 2019 in the West Kowloon...
Dai Jianyong, a photographer who frequently posts images of people with contorted faces—known...
NPR has published a review of Xiaolu Guo’s newly released novel I Am China: In an...
The passing of Wednesday’s Tiananmen anniversary has brought apparent resolution to the...
Last year, a number of works by the artist Zhao Zhao were confiscated by Chinese customs officials on their way to an exhibition in New York. On Friday, a new exhibition of his work opened in Berlin, with the artist in...
As the season of lists gets underway, Foreign Policy has released its ranking of the 100 Top Global Thinkers of 2012. Fresh from his coronation as GQ magazine’s Rebel of the Year, and leading the Chinese contingent at...
At Spiegel Online, Ulrike Knöfel profiles provocative Beijing artist Zhao Zhao and two of the gallery owners who have backed him. A former assistant to Ai Weiwei, Zhao appears in the documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry in a...
The Globe and Mail’s Mark MacKinnon talks to Ai Weiwei about pressure from the authorities, its effect on his art, and his ongoing state of heavily restricted freedom which, MacKinnon writes, “could only be possible...
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