Lynette Ong, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, joins CDT to discuss her new book Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China. In Outsourcing Repression, Ong investigates the...
“Voices of June” continues CDT’s monthly “Voices of …” collection of viral audio-visual content from pandemic lockdowns in Shanghai and other Chinese cities. Inspired by the original audio-visual compilation “Voices of April,”...
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 brutal beating of four young women, after one of the women rejected unwelcome advances from a drunken male diner at a hotpot restaurant in Tangshan, Hebei province, continued to spark outrage on Chinese social media....
Discussion about violence against women in China has been rekindled by surveillance video of a group of thugs savagely beating a woman in Tangshan, Hebei, and a belated manhunt to catch the perpetrators. Nine men were eventually...
A manhunt for a murder suspect in Fujian ended on October 18 with the alleged killer’s death—to the dismay of many on the Chinese internet, where he had turned into an unlikely folk hero of sorts. Ou Jinzhong, 51, was accused of...
A vast online database of Chinese court rulings has just shrunk by over 9%. Though China Judgments Online (中国裁判文书网), launched in 2014 by the Supreme People’s Court, has always been translucent at best—it is supposed to exclude...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Variety’s John Hopewell and Emilio Mayorga list several key takeaways for the animation...
The recent announcement of further proposed reductions in the scope of the death penalty was...
In May, five members of the fringe millenarian Christian group Church of Almighty God, also known...
In the New York Times, Mara Hvistendahl writes an opinion piece about changing attitudes toward...
At China Change, journalist Shun Ni describes the negative changes she has experienced firsthand...
On May 28, a woman was killed by a group of people in a McDonald’s in Shandong after...
In his latest cartoon, Badiucao draws inspiration from graffiti artist Banksy’s famous image...
An explosion at an illegal gambling hall in Guizhou Province has killed 14 people, according to...
A massive police raid in Boshe Village in Lufeng City, Guangdong uncovered three tons of...
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