Frank Darabont’s iconic 1994 film "The Shawshank Redemption" is no newcomer to China. Long established as users’ top-rated movie on IMDb, Shawshank holds the same rank on China’s Douban. On one hand,...
The post below, from WeChat account 白桦视界 Báihuà Shìjiè, or “White Birch Vision,” is a censored response to new restrictions on drone ownership and storage within the city of Beijing. Registration requirements and flight...
Like their counterparts elsewhere, Chinese news media face mounting challenges such as commercial headwinds and pressure to adapt to new technologies like short video. These are compounded in the Chinese context by political...
All platforms, please find, delete, and block video that fully or partially matches the attached samples. Use OCR to extract text for automatic deletion and blocking, and supplement with ASR [Automatic Speech Recognition]...
Recent weeks have seen extreme weather across central and southern China, particularly in Guangxi, where a dam breach led to at least 26 deaths. These events sparked widespread online discussion about accountability for human...
Apple announced long-anticipated AI upgrades to its Siri voice assistant this week at its annual World Wide Developers’ Conference. The new features are set for public launch later this year, but will not initially be...
Ahead of the 37th anniversary of the June Fourth crackdown, CDT Chinese editors compiled a number of related terms subject to search censorship across various Chinese online platforms. The terms, detected by a Citizen Lab...
The post below, the latest of several recent translations on the difficulties of navigating WeChat’s unpredictable content restrictions, describes how views of an innocuous post about the TV drama “Swords into Plowshares”...
The death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a U.S.-Israeli missile strike on February 28 was widely discussed on Chinese social media. Much of this conversation was reflexive, using the event to comment on various issues...
A pair of recent publications sheds light on different aspects of generative AI’s use in PRC information control activities and, in one case, on how that can backfire. A paper from Stanford’s Jennifer Pan and...
Investigative journalists Liu Hu and Wu Yingjiao were released on bail on Saturday, two weeks after they were detained across provincial borders in apparent connection with their recent report on corruption by local officials in...
On February 1, public security officers from Chengdu detained investigative reporter Liu Hu as he was en route to Beijing, and his colleague Wu Yingjiao, who was in Hebei at the time. The two face criminal charges of “illegal...
On Sunday, public security officers from Chengdu detained investigative journalist Liu Hu, as well as his colleague Wu Yingjiao, who was in Hebei at the time. The two are reportedly accused of false accusations and illegal...
Recent figures from China’s National Bureau of Statistics showed that despite policies ranging from childcare subsidies to reported menstrual monitoring, the country saw a fourth consecutive year of population decline and...
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