Journalism, Censorship, and the 19th Party Congress
At Deutsche Welle, Sabine Peschel talks to Audrey Jiajia Li, a former TV journalist who has turned...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 14, 2017
At Deutsche Welle, Sabine Peschel talks to Audrey Jiajia Li, a former TV journalist who has turned...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 19, 2016
China held its third annual World Internet Conference in the Zhejiang town of Wuzhen this week. In...
by Cindy | Oct 27, 2015
In 2013, Google chairman Eric Schmidt predicted that widespread encryption offered “a real...
by Josh Rudolph | Mar 26, 2015
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 12, 2014
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Natalie Ornell | Apr 6, 2014
The Economist reports on “a survey conducted in recent months in 17 countries for BBC World...
by Cindy | Dec 5, 2013
An increasing number of Internet users in China are turning to Lantern, a US-sponsored computer...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 25, 2013
The Global Times reports that local authorities in the Hengqin New Area Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Zhuhai, Guangdong province have applied to bypass the Great Firewall. Local authorities are hoping that the State Internet...
by Anne Henochowicz | Feb 6, 2013
The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jan 22, 2013
From the Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions from the archives of the CDT series Directives from the Ministry of Truth (真理部指令). QuanzhouNet: Provincial Propaganda Notice Carry only domestic...
by Anne Henochowicz | Dec 20, 2012
When CCTV aired V for Vendetta, uncut, last Friday, netizens thought it was a sign that reform is truly on its way. They were a bit crushed, then, to read a signed article in Tuesday’s People’s Daily entitled “The Internet...
by Anne Henochowicz | Oct 10, 2012
Editor’s Note: The CDT Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon is a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to...
by Anne Henochowicz | Apr 3, 2012
The following report from Neijiang, Sichuan was originally published by Radio France...
by Scott Greene | Jan 30, 2012
Twitter’s new censorship policy may have irked Ai Wei Wei, but China’s state-run Global Times welcomed the new rules in a Monday editorial: Many regard this declaration of adapting to local censorship laws as a...
by Scott Greene | Jan 23, 2012
Chinese netizens posted record-breaking numbers on microblogging site Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter-equivalent, in the first minute of the Year of the Dragon. But with the Chinese government implementing new Internet...
by Scott Greene | Jan 19, 2012
As part of a broader information strategy unveiled this week, the top official at China’s State Council Information Office announced nationwide expansion plans for recently implemented regulations that require...
by Scott Greene | Nov 3, 2011
In BBC News, Michael Bristow surveys China’s microblogging landscape and asks users of Sina Weibo for a view from the trenches of China’s information war: The very first response was a simple icon, showing a face...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 16, 2011
This week U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a speech about global Internet freedom, in which she specifically referred to China. The speech was followed by a concerted outreach effort by the U.S. Embassy in...