In late May, China’s State Council announced new guidelines on providing basic services in the place of people’s actual residence, rather than formal registration. Such a shift could substantially alleviate the hardships imposed...
Chinese teachers have long complained about being overworked and frequently called upon to perform various “busywork” tasks outside of teaching, such as filling out forms and surveys, nagging students to wear helmets while...
In April, a former contributor to the Beijing Normal University student media outlet 京师学人 (Jīngshī Xuérén, "Capital Scholar") noted that its WeChat public account had been deregistered. Although updates had halted in...
In early May, well before the respective visits to Beijing of American President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, online controversy erupted over Sputnik news agency footage of Chinese schoolchildren, clad in...
Last month, a former contributor to the Beijing Normal University student media outlet 京师学人 (Jīngshī Xuérén, "Capital Scholar") noted that its WeChat public account had been deregistered. Although updates had halted in...
CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message “404: content not found”)...
Last week, educational influencer Zhang Xuefeng passed away suddenly from a cardiac arrest at the age of 41. On Saturday, huge crowds thronged the streets near a funeral home in Suzhou to pay tribute to the “entrance exam guru”...
During the recently concluded “Two Sessions” annual legislative meetings, the National People’s Congress (NPC) passed a new “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” that many scholars and educators fear will threaten the...
CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message “404: content not found”)...
Following more than a week of speculation that Chengdu’s You Xing Bookstore (有杏书店, Yǒu Xìng...
Amid a new two-month “Clear and Bright” campaign by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) to clean up internet content that “maliciously incites” polarization, pessimism, anxiety, and other negative sentiments, a number...
The following censorship instructions, issued by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. (Black text boxes ██ indicate words that were intentionally blacked out in the leaked images.)...
In 2021, Tibet Action Institute (TAI) published a groundbreaking report exposing the extensive use...
An investigative report into the mass lead poisoning of hundreds of students and staff members at a kindergarten in Gansu province has revealed a host of safety and oversight violations, bribery and corruption, medical...
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