Translations: As Tributes Pour In, Chengdu’s You Xing Bookstore Gets a Reprieve From Feared Closure
Following more than a week of speculation that Chengdu’s You Xing Bookstore (有杏书店, Yǒu Xìng...
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Despite New Law to Facilitate Reporting of Public-Health Emergencies, COVID-Whistleblower Zhang Zhan Sentenced to Four More Years in Prison
Citizen journalist and COVID-whistleblower Zhang Zhan, who spent four years in prison for her in-depth reporting from Wuhan in the early days of the pandemic, was sentenced to another four years in a closed-door trial in...
Quashed MU5735 Progress Report, Workplace Stabbing by Pilot in Jilin Reignite Airline Safety Concerns
If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 in the United States or find local resources in the International Suicide Prevention Wiki. Two recent incidents have...
Book Publishers Continue to Face Commercial and Political Pressure
Government censorship in China has increasingly targeted books, bookstores, and publishers. Last fall, over a dozen bookstores were shuttered or targeted for closure, generating a chilling effect on China’s publishing industry....
China’s Drug Evaluation Center Curtails Public Data Access Amid Generic Medications Scandal; Whistleblower Deletes Weibo Account
After several doctors voiced concerns about the poor quality of domestically produced generic medications included in China’s national health-care plan—and after online sleuths found numerous examples of data fraud in clinical...
Words of the Week: “Xiaohongshu Balance-Sheet Comparisons” (小红书对账, Xiǎohóngshū duìzhàng)
Although an executive order signed by President Trump on Monday gave Bytedance-owned TikTok a 75-day reprieve from an impending U.S. ban, the future—and future ownership—of the popular short-video sharing platform remains...
Netizen Voices on TikTok “Refugees”: “We All Know This Isn’t Going to End Well, so Let’s Enjoy This ‘Global-village Moment’ While We Can”
As the U.S. Supreme Court voted to uphold a law forcing either the sale or ban of ByteDance-owned TikTok, “TikTok refugees” continued flocking to the Chinese-language app Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote. The influx of new...
Critics of China’s Proposed National Internet ID System Hit With Online Bans, Censorship, Harassment
In the two weeks since the Ministry of Public Security and the Cyberspace Administration of China published a draft law proposing an ostensibly voluntary national Internet ID program and opened it up for public comment, there...
Zhang Zhan Finally Released From Prison, But Real Freedom Remains Uncertain
Citizen-journalist Zhang Zhan finally reappeared on Tuesday, over a week after she was scheduled to be released from prison. Zhang was among the first and most prominent individuals to report from the ground in Wuhan at the...
Reports Detail Tightening Information Flows In and Out of China
Information control and national security have long gone hand in hand for the Chinese government, especially under Xi Jinping. Last year was marked by a notable increase in government attempts to restrict information flows in...
CDT Chinese Editors’ Choices for the “Most Notable Reports of 2023”
At the close of 2023, CDT Chinese has compiled a series of year-end articles on a number of special topics, including sensitive words (part one and part two), censored articles, “rollover scenes,” and people of the year. This...
Zhihu Scraps User Anonymity; Cyberspace Administration Targets Cyberbullying and Independent Content Creators
On July 7, the Chinese Quora-like Q&A site Zhihu announced that users will no longer be able to post questions and answers anonymously. For existing content posted anonymously, users will be able to choose whether to keep it...
Translation: Pepper Tribe, Online Platform for Female Chinese Workers, Shut Down
On August 9, Jianjiao Buluo or “Pepper Tribe,” an online platform dedicated to female workers, announced that it will cease updating content and will permanently close all properties linked to its official account....
Translation: Song Commemorates Coronavirus Martyr Dr. Li Wenliang
Wuhan Central Hospital ophthalmologist Dr. Li Wenliang was punished for warning about a mysterious “SARS-like virus” before the Wuhan government or Beijing had acknowledged an emerging viral epidemic. Days later, while working...
Translation: Yue Xin “On the Week Since My Open Letter”
The 1998 suicide of Peking University student Gao Yan after her alleged rape by a professor has...
Documents Show How Weibo Filters Sensitive News
Microblogging websites like Weibo, once regarded as unprecedented platforms for free expression in...
Can China Perfect Internet Censorship?
In 2013, Google chairman Eric Schmidt predicted that widespread encryption offered “a real...
Rights Groups Detail China’s Deepening Repression
Human Rights Watch released its 2015 World Report on Thursday, covering more than 90 countries in...
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