Twitter, VPN Users Pressured; LinkedIn Users Hidden
Recent months have seen a spate of detentions and interrogations of Twitter users within China,...
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Pressure Mounts on Chinese Twitter Users
Although blocked since 2009, Twitter has long hosted a sizeable community of users within China,...
Translation: Speaking of Zhang Yunfan…
Xi Jinping’s ongoing crackdown on civil society and parallel drive to reinforce ideological...
Translation: “Tea-drinking Diary” by Li Xuewen
Last week, according to the U.S. government-backed Radio Free Asia, domestic security officers in...
Activity of the Week: Drink Tea
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Liu Ermu: Political Prisoners Are Not Criminals
Dangerous levels of pollution in and around Chengdu, Sichuan earlier this month inspired denizens...
Q&A: The Perils of Being a Chinese News Assistant
Local news assistants provide invaluable but often unsung research, translation, and logistical...
Chinese Artist Wu Yuren on Life Under Surveillance
For Vice, Arvind Dilawar interviews artist Wu Yuren about life under surveillance, as he is called...
Murong Xuecun Detained Over Tiananmen Square Event
After author Murong Xuecun issued a “statement of surrender” to Chinese authorities...
Xu Youyu on Defiance in Sensitive Times
China Change has posted an adaptation of a 2011 essay by liberal scholar and Charter 08 signatory...
Murong Xuecun: The Transparent Chinese
In his latest New York Times op-ed, writer Murong Xuecun writes about the impact that persistent...
Bloggers, and Government, Respond to Pig Crisis
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...
Chongqing Police Pressure Sex Video Whistleblower
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...
Word of the Week: Drink Tea
Editor’s Note: The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a...
Records of “Drinking Tea”
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 Questioned by Police
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:...
Two Journalists Missing, Feared Detained
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...
@StonyWang: Forced to Drink Jasmine Tea
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...
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