Last week, according to the U.S. government-backed Radio Free Asia, domestic security officers in Guangzhou approached a number of local activists and other politically sensitive figures, ordering them to leave the city for six months until after Fortune magazine’s Fortune Global Forum in early...
Recent months have seen a spate of detentions and interrogations of Twitter users within China,...
Although blocked since 2009, Twitter has long hosted a sizeable community of users within China,...
Xi Jinping’s ongoing crackdown on civil society and parallel drive to reinforce ideological...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Dangerous levels of pollution in and around Chengdu, Sichuan earlier this month inspired denizens...
Local news assistants provide invaluable but often unsung research, translation, and logistical...
For Vice, Arvind Dilawar interviews artist Wu Yuren about life under surveillance, as he is called...
After author Murong Xuecun issued a “statement of surrender” to Chinese authorities...
China Change has posted an adaptation of a 2011 essay by liberal scholar and Charter 08 signatory...
In his latest New York Times op-ed, writer Murong Xuecun writes about the impact that persistent...
As close to 15,000 (and counting) pig carcasses are being pulled from the Huangpu River, the story has become a hot topic on weibo and elsewhere online in China, with cartoonists satirizing the scene and others questioning how...
The blogger who released a sex video that brought down Chongqing official Lei Zhengfu last year has refused to hand over footage of other officials despite threats of prison time for withholding evidence. Following a late-night...
Editor’s Note: The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a...
In two posts at Seeing Red in China, Yaxue Cao presents an overview of over 30 accounts of “tea drinking”—interviews, typically conducted by State Security police or ‘guobao’ 国保—from the Chinese-language...
Ai Weiwei’s wife, Lu Qing, was questioned at a Beijing police station on Tuesday afternoon, and later released [zh]. The Guardian’s Tania Branigan spoke to Ai, who said that he did not know why she had been summoned:...
The Committee to Protect Journalists highlights two disappearances apparently connected to that of Ai Weiwei: Family and colleagues have been unable to reach Caijing magazine journalist Zhang Jialong since the evening of April...
Stony Wang is a blogger based in Shanghai. The following is a collection of his tweets from February 25, detailing his experience “drinking tea” after the calls for a Jasmine Revolution circulated in Chinese...
Li Tiantian is a lawyer in Shanghai, who disappeared after being arrested over a month ago. She wrote this on her blog about a previous run-in with Domestic Security Department agents on February 15, 2011, in which she was...
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