In the midst of a troubled economy and stock market rout, a People’s Daily Online article trumpeting a supposed nationwide “air of optimism” drew so many derisive comments last week that its related hashtag was censored on...
This weekend, the Chinese public mourned the passing of Yuan Longping, the Chinese agronomist whose scientific breakthroughs in rice development helped to usher in the Green Revolution that ended famine in large parts of the...
At Startup Grind on Medium (h/t Matthew Sheehan’s Chinafornia newsletter), Panpan Wang...
At The American Interest, Francis Fukuyama provides a list of cuts made to the Chinese edition of...
Yang Jisheng, a retired Xinhua journalist, has been banned from traveling to the United States to...
At Al Jazeera, Allison Griner spoke with economist Mao Yushi about China’s Great Famine and...
Today marks the 94th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Previous Founding...
Last week, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) chalked up the Great Famine...
探索性错误 (tànsuǒxìng cuòwù): exploratory error Excuse for the famine which killed at least 18 million...
Documentary film-maker Hu Jie’s body of work has focused on Party history from the 1950s to...
At The New York Times, author Murong Xuecun describes the erosion of the government’s former...
For The Hindu, Ananth Krishnan is writing a series of articles exploring China “from Mao to...
Chris Buckley notes efforts, as the 120th anniversary of Mao’s birth approaches, to...
A Chinese professor was recently attacked by netizens on Sina Weibo for underestimating the death...
When something disappears from the Internet in China, netizens joke that it has been “river-crabbed,” a play on the euphemism “harmonized.” The River Crab Archive is a collection of blog post titles, weibo, and other materials...
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
CDT is a non-profit media site, and we need your support. Your contribution will help us provide more translations, breaking news, and other content you love.
