With hundreds of documented (and censored) online sobriquets, Xi Jinping is arguably the most nicknamed leader in recent Chinese history. To stay ahead of the censors, online Chinese have long resorted to using homophones,...
The sight of a lone man standing before a row of tanks in Beijing is perhaps the most enduring image to emerge from the Tiananmen Protests of 1989. Photographs taken on June 5 of that year—one day after PLA troops crushed the...
A crackdown on “typos” used to spread “illegal and harmful information,” and the censorship of an unpublished draft novel, have illustrated the further narrowing of online speech in China ahead of the upcoming 20th Party...
Chinese internet users have just scored a rare win against censorship. On September 3, the swear word shǎbī 傻逼, politely translated as “dumbass,” was banned from Baidu’s messaging forum Tieba. In the aughts, a mythical creature...
First launched in June of 2014, Microsoft’s Chinese-speaking social media-based...
Happy New Year from China Digital Times! As we wait to see what subversive slang will become part...
CDT has just released our latest eBook, an updated and improved edition of “Decoding the...
China Digital Times has released an updated edition of “Decoding the Chinese Internet: A Glossary...
In 2009, a strange creature emerged on the Internet from China. It was the grass-mud horse, a...
With the Year of the Horse beginning next week, The South China Morning Post reports from Hong...
On ChilaFile, CDT’s Translation Coordinator Anne Henochowicz discusses our first e-book,...
Police detained billionaire venture capitalist and outspoken civil society advocate Wang Gongquan...
CDT’s Xiao Qiang was interviewed on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered on...
Editor’s Note: The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of...
Online “poster” for the Grass-Mud Horse Festival. In honor of the “glorious holiday of the nation...
The International Herald Tribune’s Rendezvous blog writes about keyword filtering and netizen lingo in Chinese cyberspace, with examples from CDT’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon and the recent study from Carnegie Mellon...
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a weekly featured word from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online...
Loans and donations to help Ai Weiwei pay an allegedly outstanding tax bill have passed the amount initially required, but his situation remains far from resolved. Ai has already begun to repay his supporters after a fashion,...
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