CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short biographies of public intellectuals, cartoonists, human rights activists, and other people pushing for change in China; and to archive and translate sensitive essays. The wiki is a work in progress. Old Luo’s New...
Shanghai-born blogger, author, director, singer, restaurateur, and race car driver Han Han published his first essay while still in junior high school in 2000. After dropping out of high school,...
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short biographies of...
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short...
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short...
Citizen journalist Lu Yuyu and his girlfriend Li Tingyu have been chronicling “mass...
Tibetan writer and blogger Druklo has been sentenced to three years in prison by a court in...
For the Australian Financial Review, Angus Grigg examines the two-year campaign against social...
Since nationalistic blogger Zhou Xiaoping’s “positive energy” won accolades from...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
China’s influential “Big V” microbloggers have been primary targets in the...
At China Change, 26-year-old blogger and former editor at qq.com Zhang Jialong explains why he...
The Telegraph’s Tom Phillips profiles soccer- turned social commentator Li Chengpeng: On...
One week ago, former CCTV producer Wang Qinglei posted an open letter to weibo criticizing his...
As China celebrated its 64th National Day on Tuesday, and top officials flocked to Tiananmen...
Since 2008, Tibetan writer, activist, and blogger Woeser has repeatedly found herself (along with her husband Wang Lixiong) under house arrest. According to a post published yesterday on her Chinese-language blog, Wang and...
A short film in the New York Times’ OpDoc series looks at blogger Zhang Shihe, also known as Tiger Temple, who rides his bicycle through China’s countryside and documents the lives of villagers: In a country with one...
Chinese netizens have recently discovered the public petition system on the White House website, and several petitions created by Chinese citizens have gone viral, notably one calling for an investigation of a 1994 poisoning...
The New York Times’ Andrew Jacobs profiles anti-corruption blogger Zhu Ruifeng, whose publication of a sex tape last November brought down 11 Chongqing officials and exposed the extortion ring that had ensnared them. With...
In the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson critiques a new book of translated essays by Han Han, This Generation: Dispatches from China’s Most Popular Literary Star (and Race Car Driver), and looks at the limits of his...
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