China is set to investigate school textbooks after illustrations deemed to be sexually suggestive or politically inappropriate caused an uproar on social media. On Monday, the Chinese Ministry of Education ordered a nationwide...
A YouTube video performance of “New Slave” 《新奴隶》, a song by Shanghai-based rapper Astro, has drawn attention for its frank lyrics about the chaos during Shanghai’s recent lockdown. After being widely circulated on...
On Friday, Hong Kong’s new museum of visual culture, M+, made its debut to the public. A two-decade-long, billion-dollar project considered the crown jewel of West Kowloon, it will test the limits of how far the National...
A new album from a Mandopop superstar is raising awareness of domestic abuse in China at a time when a series of brutal recent news stories have sparked widespread public outrage over endemic violence against women in the...
From 2013-2018, Badiucao was a contributing cartoonist for CDT. Born and raised in China, he later...
Ningxia’s Yinchuan Musuem of Contemporary Art has removed the work of artist-activist Ai...
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short biographies of...
At Reuters, Michelle Nichols reports the continuation of China’s longstanding practice of...
Following the return of Ai Weiwei’s passport after a four-year effective travel ban,...
On Twitter and Instagram, Ai Weiwei today announced that authorities had finally returned his...
At The Mediated Image, Oxford University’s Ros Holmes extensively examines the work of Chinese...
For Vice, Arvind Dilawar interviews artist Wu Yuren about life under surveillance, as he is called...
Dai Jianyong, a photographer who frequently posts images of people with contorted faces—known...
The Wall Street Journal's Wei Gu describes the art world's current fondness for a rising...
A new video by Leah Thompson and Sun Yunfan of ChinaFile looks at a group of young Chinese who are...
At the Beijing Forum on Art and Literature In October, President Xi Jinping delivered a speech on...
Yesterday at the Beijing Forum on Literature and Art, President Xi Jinping addressed a gathering...
NPR has published a review of Xiaolu Guo’s newly released novel I Am China: In an...
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