Minireview: 2018 in Censorship (Oct-Dec)
This series is a recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government authorities in...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 5, 2019
This series is a recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government authorities in...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 28, 2019
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 15, 2018
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Anne Henochowicz | May 12, 2016
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 5, 2015
Housing rights activists Jia Lingmin and Liu Diwei were both given prison sentences today in...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 3, 2015
The abbot of Henan’s Shaolin Monastery, the Chan Buddhist institution famous for being the...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 9, 2014
Christian pastor Zhang Shaojie has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud and...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 24, 2013
The AP reports that a Christian congregation’s Christmas meeting in Nanle county, Henan...
by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 11, 2013
The following propaganda directive was first published by Reporters Without Borders. Henan...
by Anne Henochowicz | Oct 31, 2013
Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions from the archives of the...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 13, 2013
Global Times’ Liang Chen revisits the “seesaw battle” over grave demolitions in Henan, which began last year with a heavy-handed campaign of land reclamation. Locals suspected that this was to make way for...
by Anne Henochowicz | Feb 6, 2013
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by central government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Central Propaganda Department: With regards to State Administration of Work Safety Vice...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 5, 2013
Xinhua reported on Tuesday that ten people from Henan have received prison sentences for wrongfully imprisoning petitioners in Beijing, and must also pay compensation. Wang Gaowei and his other nine accomplices, natives of...
by Melissa M. Chan | Jan 8, 2013
Amid concerns about childrens’ safety due to recent traffic accidents involving children and knife attack at a primary school, the BBC reports a fire at an orphanage in Henan has left seven children dead: Four children...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 24, 2012
Initial comparisons between the Newtown and Chenpeng school attacks this month tended to focus on the attackers’ weapons. Many noted that the 23 slashed in China all survived, in contrast with the 26 killed in Connecticut....
by Melissa M. Chan | Dec 18, 2012
As China braces for the end of the world, the Washington Post reports China has detained 93 people including members of a quasi-Christian cult who claim that the world will end in a few days: Scores and perhaps hundreds of...
by Scott Greene | Dec 13, 2012
Xinhua News reports that a man stabbed twenty-two children and a villager at a primary school in China’s Henan Province early Friday morning, according to local officials: Local police said they had seized the suspect, a...
by Anne Henochowicz | Dec 5, 2012
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...