May 10, 2023 marked the second anniversary of the detention of program-think (Biānchéng suíxiǎng, 编程随想), an incisive and influential blogger who for twelve years managed to maintain his anonymity while maintaining a prolific...
People’s Daily Online breathed new life into a stale meme this past week with an opinion piece titled “We Cannot Let Vulgar Online Slang Poison Our Children” that railed against online slang and vloggers. The piece singled out...
Some communities in Shanghai have embraced the viral trend of commissioning videos of dancing Africans sending well-wishes to Chinese residents in lockdown. The videos often feature groups of children or muscular African men...
Editor’s Note: As we enter 2022, CDT has compiled a special series of features for our readers, offering a look back at the people, events, controversies, memes and sensitive words that defined the past year. Some of this...
Allegations that a well-connected corporate lawyer repeatedly raped a teenage girl he had guardianship over have generated outrage online after being reported by Chinese media last week. The now 18-year-old girl, using the...
Based in Washington, D.C., Liz Carter translates Chinese-language textbooks and writes at A Big...
CDT has extensively documented the vibrant wordplay used to evade China’s online censors....
Poetry is revered in China, but is it still a living art form? In 2006, Han Han said modern...
At Quartz, Lily Kuo and Zheping Huang compile a list of this year’s most symbolic Chinese...
In 2009, a strange creature emerged on the Internet from China. It was the grass-mud horse, a...
In April, CDT Founder and Editor-in-Chief Xiao Qiang delivered a talk at TedxLiberdade in tune...
For the New York Times, Ian Johnson looks at the fall of Weibo and the rise of WeChat (Weixin) and...
At Games In Asia, Charles Custer reports on the recent death of a 19-year-old patient at an...
This week, CDT presents political cartoons, shared on the Chinese Internet, about a murder at...
David Barboza at the New York Times looks at live karaoke performances on YY.com, a popular...
菊花文 (júhuā wén): chrysanthemum script Coded writing using the Combining Cyrillic...
The Chinese Communist Party “showed how concerned it is about its control over the...
With the Year of the Horse beginning next week, The South China Morning Post reports from Hong...
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