CDT Bookshelf: Liz Carter on “Let 100 Voices Speak”
Based in Washington, D.C., Liz Carter translates Chinese-language textbooks and writes at A Big...
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LatestWhy China’s Internet Calls Katy Perry “Fruit Sister”
CDT has extensively documented the vibrant wordplay used to evade China’s online censors....
CDT Bookshelf: Heather Inwood’s Verse Going Viral
Poetry is revered in China, but is it still a living art form? In 2006, Han Han said modern...
China’s 2014 Internet Memes
At Quartz, Lily Kuo and Zheping Huang compile a list of this year’s most symbolic Chinese...
CDT eBook: Decoding the Chinese Internet
In 2009, a strange creature emerged on the Internet from China. It was the grass-mud horse, a...
Xiao Qiang: “From Fart People to Citizens”
In April, CDT Founder and Editor-in-Chief Xiao Qiang delivered a talk at TedxLiberdade in tune...
An Online Shift in China Muffles an Open Forum
For the New York Times, Ian Johnson looks at the fall of Weibo and the rise of WeChat (Weixin) and...
Girl Dies at Web Addiction Rehab School
At Games In Asia, Charles Custer reports on the recent death of a 19-year-old patient at an...
Drawing the News: Blood Spilt Yesterday, Today
This week, CDT presents political cartoons, shared on the Chinese Internet, about a murder at...
Lucrative Stardom Using a Webcam and a Voice
David Barboza at the New York Times looks at live karaoke performances on YY.com, a popular...
Script of the Week: Chrysanthemum
菊花文 (júhuā wén): chrysanthemum script Coded writing using the Combining Cyrillic...
CCP’s Tricky Search For Online Security
The Chinese Communist Party “showed how concerned it is about its control over the...
Cuddly Protest Icon Says ‘Neigh’ To Censorship
With the Year of the Horse beginning next week, The South China Morning Post reports from Hong...
China’s Web Junkies
The New York Times’ Op-Doc series goes inside a treatment facility outside Beijing treating...
Chinese E-Literature Needs Archiving
At ChinaFile, the author of the upcoming book, Internet Literature in China, Michel...
In China, E-Commerce a Legal Grey Area
Sijia Jiang of the South China Morning Post reports that with no law specifically governing...
Stability and Sovereignty in Cyberspace
China Real Time’s Josh Chin highlights one novel aspect of a police recommendation for the...
Benedict Cumberbatch is a Gay Erotic God in China
While the Chinese LGBT community faces widespread discrimination in real life, online culture has...
