The Douban comment was not inflammatory. In fact, it didn’t even betray an overt opinion. But for censors, it was too much. “A note for posterity: this will be Inner Mongolia’s last Mongolian-language gaokao,” it read. Censors...
Less than a month after the conclusion of China’s hypercompetitive annual university entrance examination (“gaokao”), a satirical meme about an imaginary university has been banned on Weibo. The meme and its censorship reveal...
Two years and four months after whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang’s death from COVID-19, the comments section under his last Weibo post, which has become known as “China’s Wailing Wall,” continues to serve as a repository for the...
The past weekend has brought more bad news for many Chinese students who have found themselves at the whim of the government’s aggressive and sustained zero-COVID policies. On Saturday, Shanghai officials announced that the...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media and internet companies by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. 2021/9/14...
Emotion recognition technology is being marketed globally as the next frontier of facial recognition, with proponents claiming it particularly well-suited for two starkly different environments: schools and prisons. In the...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. Notice: From June 28 onward, all...
This series is a recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government authorities in...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The future development of China’s emerging Social Credit System has been the subject of much...
More than nine million high school students sat China’s grueling national college entrance...
Parents angered over proposed changes to the admissions standards for universities, which they...
After being arrested in 2013 for alleged involvement in an embezzlement scandal, former Renmin...
At The New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow spoke with Yong Zhao, professor of education at the...
As a new school year begins, China’s education gap remains sizable despite recent reform...
In the New York Times, Helen Gao writes about the inequalities in China’s education system,...
The announcement that this year’s fiercely competitive gaokao university entrance exams...
After publishing a report looking at the many educational barriers facing people with disabilities...
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