Minireview: 2018 in Censorship (Oct-Dec)
This series is a recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government authorities in...
Feb 5, 2019
This series is a recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government authorities in...
Nov 7, 2018
The following propaganda instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Dec 12, 2013
According to the PEW Research Center, official corruption is considered a “very big...
Mar 28, 2013
Andrew Jacobs of The New York Times reports that China’s free-spending government elites – and the businesses that cater to them – are feeling the squeeze under new president Xi Jinping’s austerity...
Feb 8, 2013
As the government and state media push a ‘Clean Plate Campaign’ and high-end restaurants suffer through a drought of official banquet reservations, Adam Minter examines cultural attitudes behind food waste in China....
Dec 6, 2012
China’s new Party leadership has vowed to reject “extravagance, formalism and bureaucracy” in government—or, as The Financial Times put it, to let a hundred flowers wilt. Xinhua recounted the long list of...
Dec 16, 2009
The Christian Science Monitor reports on the death of a traffic cop in Shenzhen after excessive drinking at an official banquet: Traffic cop Chen Lusheng’s death by choking follows several similarly deadly incidents elsewhere in...
Nov 22, 2009
Zhao Linzhong, National People’s Congress delegate, is proposing an interesting piece of legislation. From AFP: “Public spending on eating and drinking is a waste of social assets,” Zhao Linzhong, a delegate to...
Mar 7, 2008
As Xinhua reported (and CDT translated) last August, officials in Xinyang, Henan Province have been touting the economic and social benefits the city has accrued after banning the consumption of alcohol at official banquets. The...
Feb 21, 2008
In China, lunch meetings are often a time to conduct business over food and drinks. A year after Henan officials were banned from lunchtime libations, the province’s alcohol industry is fighting back, claiming that as a...
Jan 25, 2008
Political jingles are not new in China. Even in Mao’s time, powerless people at the bottom of society used jingles to express themselves (often in the form of veiled criticism, sarcasm or anger, in reaction to the...
Dec 28, 2007
A new commentary from Great Wall Online provides an update on CDT’s earlier post about a new ban on alcohol at lunch for officials in the Henan Province city of Xinyang. Translated by CDT: The benefits of the ban on...
Aug 15, 2007
Xinyang City Secretary reports on a rare experiment and its achievements: banning alcohol at cadres’ lunches. Benefits are multiple, and enormous. Translated from Xinhua Henan channel: An alcohol ban at lunches for all...