Netizen Voices: As Sino-Japanese Tensions Rise, “Tourism is Treated like a Chamberpot, a Disposable Tool”
The diplomatic crisis between China and Japan continues to intensify, following Japanese Prime...
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Censorship and Propaganda Fuel Anti-Japanese Nationalism During China’s War Anniversaries
Last month, a Chinese man attacked a Japanese woman and her child in a subway station in Suzhou, sending her to the hospital for treatment. Media reports about the attack were censored on WeChat. The Japanese government called...
Translation of Chai Jing Interview With Chinese Civil War Survivor Gao Binghan, Part 2: “War Is Always a Tragedy, Something I Cannot Endorse.”
Amid recurrent China-Taiwan tensions and rising geopolitical instability, investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Chai Jing has revisited and updated her iconic 2012 interview with Gao Binghan, a survivor of the...
Translation of Chai Jing Interview With Chinese Civil War Survivor Gao Binghan, Part 1: “Those Who Forget That History of Suffering Are Destined to Suffer Again”
Amid recurrent China-Taiwan tensions and rising geopolitical instability, investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Chai Jing has revisited and updated her iconic 2012 interview with Gao Binghan, a survivor of the...
CDT 2024 Year-End Roundup: Quotes of the Year (Part 2)
As 2024 draws to a close, CDT editors are compiling a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding quotes, reports, podcasts and...
Nike-wearing Nationalist Assaults Kimono-wearing Cosplayer While Yelling About “Cultural Invasion”
The latest outburst of anti-Japanese violence to shock China happened this week in Jiuquan, Gansu province, where a cosplayer at a mall comic-con was assaulted by a man yelling about “cultural invasion.” Ironically, the attacker...
Online and Offline Tributes Paid to Suzhou’s School-Bus Attendant Heroine Hu Youping
Online and offline tributes continue to pour in for Hu Youping, the Chinese school bus attendant who was fatally stabbed when she tried to prevent a knife-wielding man from attacking Japanese schoolchildren and parents at a bus...
Chinese Social Media Platforms Launch Crackdown on Extreme Nationalism and Xenophobic Hate-Speech After Fatal Suzhou Stabbing
Chinese social media platforms have announced a belated crackdown on “extreme nationalism” and xenophobic hate-speech online, following last week’s fatal stabbing at a school bus stop in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, in which a...
Netizens Reflect on Anti-Japanese Propaganda After Stabbing at School Bus Stop
A stabbing at a school bus stop in Eastern China that left two Japanese nationals and a Chinese national injured is the latest instance of anti-foreigner violence to rock China in the last month. Two weeks ago, four instructors...
Quote of the Day: “Nowadays, People are Proving Their Patriotism by Destroying Bottles of Nongfu Spring Water”
In recent weeks, two very familiar household names in China—Nobel prize-winning novelist Mo Yan and bottled water company Nongfu Spring—have come under fire from extreme Chinese nationalists, who have accused the pair of odd...
Extreme Nationalists Accuse Nobel Laureate Mo Yan, Bottled Water Company Nongfu Spring of Being Insufficiently Patriotic
In recent weeks, both the Nobel prize-winning novelist Mo Yan and the Chinese bottled water company Nongfu Spring have come under fire from extreme Chinese nationalists, who have accused them of being insufficiently patriotic....
Ultranationalist Bloggers Take Aim at Red Circles, Backlash Ensues
When the management of a shopping mall in Nanjing decided to post some festive New Year’s decorations, little did they expect that the red and white floral and circular designs would make them the target of an ultranationalist...
Kimono Detention Latest Incident of Anti-Japanese Sentiment in China
Police detained and interrogated a young woman for wearing a kimono in Suzhou, the latest apparent example of a surge in anti-Japanese sentiment across China. The woman posted a video of her detention to Weibo, capturing the...
A Critique of Japan’s Proposed Constitutional Reforms Morphs into “Comments-Section Referendum” on Xi
A Chinese government official’s Weibo post lecturing Japan about the danger of amending its constitution—standard nationalist fare on the microblogging site—turned into a forum for criticizing a 2018 Chinese constitutional...
China media fairer toward Japan
From the Japan Times: “On Sino-Japanese relations, we can see some changes toward being more restrained, more analytical and less emotional,” said Liang Yunxiang, an associate professor in international relations at Peking University. This approach to China’s Japan coverage, different from a year ago when Chinese media omitted Japan’s perspectives or ran only negative Japanese […]
Hu Meets Japanese Party Officials
From Xinhua: President Hu Jintao met with the secretaries-general of Japan’s two ruling coalition parties in Beijing on Sunday, calling on both countries to work for the long-term healthy and stable development of bilateral relations. He said strengthening dialogue and communication with them would have a positive impact on improving and promoting China-Japan relations when […]
Willy Lam: Anti-Japanese protests pose long-term challenges for Beijing
In the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief (via Asia Media), Willy Lam writes: It is not surprising that President Hu Jintao and his colleagues decided in mid-April to cool down anti-Japanese protests: a body blow has been dealt to China’s reputation as a responsible member of the global community. The fact that the Chinese Communist Party […]
Bennett Richardson: Anti-Japan protests may signal power struggle
From Asia Times: Anti-Japan violence, statements and other developments in China suggest the recent political situation in Beijing has been less stable than outward appearances indicate and that a hidden power struggle may have occurred during the past few weeks of unrest. State-run newspapers in China have recently suggested that the anti-Japan riots across the […]
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