Twitter, VPN Users Pressured; LinkedIn Users Hidden
Recent months have seen a spate of detentions and interrogations of Twitter users within China,...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 8, 2019
Recent months have seen a spate of detentions and interrogations of Twitter users within China,...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 12, 2018
Although blocked since 2009, Twitter has long hosted a sizeable community of users within China,...
by Josh Rudolph | Jan 26, 2018
Xi Jinping’s ongoing crackdown on civil society and parallel drive to reinforce ideological...
by Samuel Wade | May 25, 2017
Last week, according to the U.S. government-backed Radio Free Asia, domestic security officers in...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 22, 2016
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 19, 2016
Dangerous levels of pollution in and around Chengdu, Sichuan earlier this month inspired denizens...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 11, 2015
Local news assistants provide invaluable but often unsung research, translation, and logistical...
by Sophie Beach | Jun 16, 2015
For Vice, Arvind Dilawar interviews artist Wu Yuren about life under surveillance, as he is called...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 8, 2014
After author Murong Xuecun issued a “statement of surrender” to Chinese authorities...
by Samuel Wade | May 12, 2014
China Change has posted an adaptation of a 2011 essay by liberal scholar and Charter 08 signatory...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 17, 2013
In his latest New York Times op-ed, writer Murong Xuecun writes about the impact that persistent...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 22, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 29, 2013
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...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 20, 2012
Editor’s Note: The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 2, 2012
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...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 29, 2011
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:...
by Samuel Wade | May 5, 2011
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...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 25, 2011
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...