On Chinese social media, the phrase “weak spot” (软肋, ruǎn lèi) is often used metaphorically to refer to family members—particularly children—used as leverage by public security, state security, or government authorities to...
This year’s recently concluded “Two Sessions,” the annual gatherings of China’s rubber-stamp National People’s Congress (NPC) and advisory Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), were more Party-scripted and...
Many entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens welcomed the news that provincial prosecutors in Guizhou are investigating a local government for arresting businesswoman Ma Yijiayi and her lawyers and accusing them of “picking...
Last month, an otherwise innocuous report at Sixth Tone on cloning of Tibetan cattle referred to the region only by its Chinese name, Xizang, falling in line with a recent push by Chinese authorities. For some, this symbolized a...
This week, a 2016 People’s Daily article predicting that China would enter the club of “high-income” nations by 2024 was reposted and widely shared online, attracting many sardonic comments before it was eventually deleted from...
This month, there have been a number of incidents—some major and some minor—that illustrate the “U-lock” mentality, a phrase that is sometimes used as shorthand to describe vitriolic xenophobic (particularly anti-Japanese)...
On September 12, 2003, John Battelle published the first post on chinadigitaltimes.net: Here’s what a Google Search on “china weblog” yields, I’m looking forward to seeing ours at the top soon! China’s online population at the...
China Digital Times has published a new eBook, “Watching Big Brother: Political Cartoons by...
Happy New Year from China Digital Times! As we wait to see what subversive slang will become part...
CDT has just released our latest eBook, an updated and improved edition of “Decoding the...
China Digital Times has released an updated edition of “Decoding the Chinese Internet: A Glossary...
Happy Year of the Sheep (or Goat, or Ram)! To celebrate Lunar New Year, we’re offering our...
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Two publications have published excerpts from the new CDT eBook, “Covering China from...
In 2009, a strange creature emerged on the Internet from China. It was the grass-mud horse, a...
buy Hexie Farm (蟹农场) is the name of a series of political cartoons created by an anonymous Chinese...
Over the years, China Digital Times has collected, translated, and defined Chinese netizen...
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