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Nowhere to Pun Amid Crackdown on Wordplay
At the Wall Street Journal, Te-Ping Chen reports that the State Administration of Press,...
Netizens Revel in People’s Daily-Onion Gaff
Yesterday, the state-run People’s Daily Online ran the story Kim Jong-un Named The Onion’s...
Zhang Yimou, You Really Are Cheap
Zhang Yimou, director of the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, is now in hot water over his...
Conquering Space and Suppressing the Cosmos
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...
Bitter Jokes about Censorship
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...
Inviting Bad Fortune? Netizens Plead for CCTV Journalist's Return
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...
A Village With Only One Restaurant
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...
How Mao Killed Chinese Humor … and How the Internet Is Slowly Bringing It Back Again.
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...
Chinese Use Internet to Show their Political Dissent
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...
Comic Strip: Birth of a Fifty Cent Party Member
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...
Tang Poem Mockery: Grass-Mud Horse Running on the Ma Le Desert
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...
Chinese See Funny Side of Financial Crisis
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...
Cartoon: Chinese Netizens on “Netizens’ Day”
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...
Humor: School Teachers’ Views of the Internet
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...
“2009 CCTV Spring Festival Gala Line-up” Leaked
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...
Chinese Bloggers Mock Mandelson Amid Milk Crisis
Chinese bloggers are now making fun of Peter Mandelson, the British Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise, and Regulatory Reform, by making comparisons between two recent pieces of news. Oct. 6 from the Telegraph, The new...
Humorous Spirit of the Sichuan People
Sichuan people are known to have a keen sense of humor and to know how to enjoy life. They even crack jokes about their earthquake experiences. Following are selective translations of some of their jokes, collected by SMS and...
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