Bookstores Become Sites of Subtle Protest Against Xi Jinping
Chinese bookstore shelf arrangements rarely go viral—that is, unless they contain a hidden message...
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Fireworks on Chinese Social Media Follow Death of Iranian President Raisi
Following Monday’s news of a late-night helicopter crash in heavy fog that killed Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and six others (including crew members), some Chinese social...
Quote of the Day: “My Rights — Are Those of a Pedestrian in an Automobile Age”
Our latest quote of the day is taken from a viral poem scrawled on a wall in Xi’an titled “My Rights” by the anonymous poet “Sowing Seeds Alone.” The poem is a call to protect the rights of “pedestrians” against the domination...
Man Imprisoned For “Inciting Subversion” Believed to be Legendary Chinese Blogger
For 12 years, the anonymous Chinese blogger program-think eluded authorities while writing on the most sensitive of topics: the Great Firewall, the Tiananmen Massacre, high-level factional politics, freedom of speech, and more....
Wailing Wall Special Edition: The Third Anniversary of Whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang’s Death
February 6 marked the three-year anniversary of the death of Dr. Li Wenliang, a young ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital whose attempts to warn colleagues and the public of an emerging coronavirus made him an heroic...
Duo Use Performance Art to Prevail After Eviction for Opposition to “Routinized COVID Testing”
Following the deadly bus crash in Guizhou that killed 27 people, injured 20, and triggered fierce debate about China’s zero-COVID policy, two performance artists in Hebei successfully opted out of mandatory testing requirements...
Cai Xia Tweets Three Strikes that Pushed Her Out of the Party
Cai Xia, the outspoken professor emerita of the Central Party School who was recently expelled from the Chinese Communist Party, is now on Twitter @realcaixia. Her first two tweets make public the “relevant passages of the...
Former Party School Professor Expelled from Party Following Blistering Speech (Updated)
Former Central Party School professor Cai Xia has been formally expelled from the Party following a speech she gave online in May, in which she called the party “a political zombie.” (CDT published a translation of...
Translation: Even Without a Security Law, Authorities Have a Million Methods
On June 30, hours after Xi Jinping signed Hong Kong’s national security law in Beijing, authorities in the territory hastily implemented the controversial legislation. A chill descended on the city as observers across the...
Xi Resignation Letter: 20 Detained, Site Faces Closure
On March 4, the opening day of the annual top political meetings in Beijing, the state-linked...
Little Space for Uyghur or Tibetan Grievances
At China Policy Institute Blog, Elliot Sperling of Indiana University looks at how the Chinese...
China Said to Be Holding Journalist Over Xi Letter
The New York Times’ Javier C. Hernandez reports that prominent Chinese journalist Jia Jia...
Sensitive Words: Closing Down an Open Letter
Sensitive Words highlights keywords that are blocked from Sina Weibo search results. CDT...
Loyal Party Members Urge Xi’s Resignation
Xi Jinping’s efforts to maintain ideological conformity in the Party and the nation have...
Memories of Torture and Hope for Redemption
Central authorities have claimed that criminal justice reforms since 2009 have helped to curb the...
New Laws Focus on “Ideological Security”
A trio of proposed laws under consideration by China’s National People’s Congress...
Maoists in China, Given New Life, Attack Dissent
An ongoing crackdown on speech and dissent in China since Xi Jinping came to power has empowered...
Prosperous Chinese Risk Fortune For Protest
Bloomberg reports that even some of China’s most financially successful citizens have risked...
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