A performance art piece by a student who sat in a cage to protest a draconian lockdown of the Beijing Film Academy (BFA) recently went viral, and was censored just as quickly. Like many other Chinese citizens, university...
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...
CDT has long celebrated irreverent online humor in China, commissioning and publishing cartoons,...
At the Wall Street Journal, Te-Ping Chen reports that the State Administration of Press,...
Yesterday, the state-run People’s Daily Online ran the story Kim Jong-un Named The Onion’s...
Zhang Yimou, director of the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, is now in hot water over his...
Conquer Space, Suppress the Cosmos 征服太空 镇压宇宙 Nothing is impossible 没有不可能完成的任务 Attend...
Yuzhe Ziyu, a netizen living in Chongqing, posted a call for tales of censorship on his Google+ profile on February 3. Below are the responses he received. Read the original here. Translated by Deng Bolun. Yuzhe Ziyu: Tell...
On November 17, Zhang Quanling (张泉灵), a CCTV news anchor, posted the following tweet using her Sina Weibo account: @Zhang Quanling: @Xu Shengyi is one of our foreign correspondents. Bin Laden died soon after she arrived in the...
Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn translates a joke currently being passed around on Sina Weibo and beyond: There is a village that only has one restaurant. Everyone in the village has to eat at that restaurant. Villager: Why...
At Foreign Policy, Eric Abrahams describes the fall and rise of humour in the People’s Republic: … China’s educational policy and official pronouncements did not stray far from this pattern of value statements...
USA Today reports on online political humor in China as an outlet for dissatisfaction with the status quo: Coded language is common in Chinese cyberspace, not just to reduce the risk of official retribution, but also to show off...
Netizens first coined the term “Fifty Cent Party” to refer to undercover Internet commentators who were paid by the government to sway public opinion (“fifty cents” is a reference to the alleged pay...
The following painting and “poem” are posted on many blogs and other social media sites*, such as here, here and here. 阳春三月欲赏花 还须翻墙到邻家 闲来把酒煮河蟹 马勒戈壁草泥马 I want to enjoy the flowers in the beautiful March Must climb...
With all the dire financial news in the media these days, Reuters takes a more light-hearted approach by reporting the jokes that are circulating among cell phone users and netizens: Many of the jokes have been circulating...
Last week, a group of government officials and Internet executives announced the first “Netizens’ Day” on September 14th, which apparently marks the anniversary of the first e-mail message sent from China in...
The following BBS post makes fun of what school teachers say about the Internet. From juetuzhi.cn, translated by CDT: Politics teacher: It objectively reflects the Chinese people’s improved standards of living. Chinese...
Micah Sittig translated a post on Zhangjiang BBS, purporting to be a leaked copy of the “2009 CCTV Spring Festival Gala Line-up”(the server is no longer available anymore). Here selects some funny excerpts from the...
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