CDT Editor’s Note: As we enter 2022, CDT has compiled a special series of features for our readers, offering a look back at the people, events, controversies, memes and sensitive words that defined the past year. Some of this...
Numerous Chinese activists, bloggers and ordinary netizens have experienced being “invited to tea” by the police—ostensibly for a casual discussion at the police station over a real or metaphorical cup of tea. At best, the...
Former journalist and anti-corruption crusader Luo Changping was detained by police on Hainan Island on October 7, a day after his personal Weibo account was deleted over a post questioning the justification for China’s...
Huang Zhijie, the executive editor of Watching Media and a popular self-media blogger, has resurfaced after disappearing from social media for six months when one of his posts curried enough anonymous threats to himself and his...
New research published by the cybersecurity firm Mandiant Threat Intelligence, in collaboration with Google’s Threat Assessment Group, has highlighted the dangerous evolution of Chinese influence operations online. A suspected...
Welcome to the post-game analysis of the Hu vs. Li smackdown that has occupied much of our attention over the last week. In one corner, we had Li Guangman, a relatively unknown blogger who rose to fame when his fiery essay about...
In recent months, a spirited debate about COVID-19 pandemic control strategy has emerged online, but is actively being suppressed through post deletion and other censorship, intimidation, personal attacks, and retaliation for...
An anonymous Chinese tech and politics blogger known as program-think (编程随想) has reportedly been detained in China after evading identification and arrest for more than 12 years. program-think, whose Blogspot posts included...
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...
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short biographies of...
Shanghai-born blogger, author, director, singer, restaurateur, and race car driver Han Han...
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...
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