A fawning Xinhua article on Xi Jinping’s concern for citizens affected by natural disasters has become the latest piece of “low-level red, high-level black” propaganda. Intended to tout Xi’s steadfast leadership, it...
A Weibo user who works as a computer programmer in Chengde, Hebei province, has reported that he was fined and had three years of income confiscated by the local public security bureau for using a virtual private network (VPN)...
Catastrophic flooding caused by Typhoon Doksuri has killed at least 21 people, left approximately 26 people missing, and led to the evacuation of hundreds of thousands in northern China. Rainfall in Beijing broke a 140-year old...
Less than a month after the conclusion of China’s hypercompetitive annual university entrance examination (“gaokao”), a satirical meme about an imaginary university has been banned on Weibo. The meme and its censorship reveal...
Snow? In Hebei? In May? Don’t even joke about it.A young man in a small city in southern Hebei was called in for talks by the local internet police after posting a video of snowfall to Douyin tagged “Shahe City,...
The brutal beating of four young women, after one of the women rejected unwelcome advances from a drunken male diner at a hotpot restaurant in Tangshan, Hebei province, continued to spark outrage on Chinese social media....
In China’s northern provinces, health authorities are contending with the most severe domestic spread of coronavirus since the initial outbreak more than one year ago. To the south, Hong Kong has been struggling to contain...
The latest COVID-19 outbreak in Hebei, first detected in the provincial capital of Shijiazhuang, has triggered a strict lockdown likened by some to wartime measures. People with Hebei residency (hukou) have been suddenly...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
China’s emerging Social Credit System has attracted growing media attention as a centerpiece...
China’s central leaders have been waging an official “war on pollution” for nearly four years,...
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
After translating the first half of migrant worker Fan Yusu (范雨素)’s viral biographical essay...
Last week, migrant worker Fan Yusu (范雨素) posted a biographical essay about her struggle through...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Commenting on the massive flooding that has led to at least 164 deaths in northern China over the...
At The New York Times, Ian Johnson provides an in-depth look at the creation of Jing-Jin-Ji, a new...
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