Xinjiang Editor Fired; Others Face Chill Over “Rumors”
At The Guardian, Tom Phillips reports the firing of a Xinjiang newspaper editor over his public...
Jason Ng
Miao Ying, Net Art, and Cultural Hybridity
At The Mediated Image, Oxford University’s Ros Holmes extensively examines the work of Chinese...
Blurred Lines, Drawn Swords: Internet Control Under Xi
Discussing new restrictions on Chinese instant messaging services such as WeChat, Jason Q. Ng...
Jason Q. Ng on Hairy Bacon and Digital Censorship
At PEN America, Deji Olukotun talks to Jason Q Ng, author of Blocked on Weibo: What Gets...
The Diminishing Returns of Tricking China’s Censors
The linguistic gymnastics used to evade censorship by China’s more politically inclined web...
Tiananmen 25: Tight Controls On Square and Online
The weeks leading up to the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on Wednesday were marked by an unprecedented campaign of detentions, house arrests, forced or restricted travel, intimidation and surveillance. Those...
Rage Against the Machine, or Work Within It?
Reviewing Emily Parker’s Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet...
Chinese Internet Censorship Works, Sometimes
At ChinaFile, Jason Q. Ng examines censorship of terms related to the rumored corruption...
Justice Sought After Bo Xilai’s Organized Crime Campaign
Following the announcement last week of Bo Xilai’s appeal against a life sentence for...
Two Views on How China Censors Social Media
At MIT’s Technology Review, Tom Simonite describes a recent study of Chinese Internet...
China’s Little Brothers Cleanse Online Chatter
At Reuters, Li Hui and Megha Rajagopalan look inside Sina Weibo’s Tianjin censorship center, where...
Ai Weiwei Uncertain Whether to Pay Tax Bill as Donations Approach $1,000,000
Reuters reports that loans and other contributions to help Ai Weiwei pay a 15 million yuan (US$2.4 million) tax bill have created a pool of almost one million US dollars from over 20,000 donors so far. But having vowed to fight...
Jason NG: What a Beautiful Sensitive Word
Jason Ng (伍嘉贤) is a Beijing based well-known technology blogger and founder of kenenba.com. He just published a blog post entitled “What a Beautiful Sensitive Word” [1], translated by CDT: My last blog entry was...
Jason Ng: What Kind of Tea Did I Drink?
“Drinking Tea” (喝茶) is now a common vocabulary in online political discourse. It refers to the widespread practices by DSD police or other authorities to harass, intimidate and conduct information-gathering on...
Jason Ng (伍嘉贤): What Has Twitter Changed?
Jason Ng (伍嘉贤) is a Beijing based well-known technology blogger and founder of kenenba.com. He wrote following post on his blog, translated by CDT: When I was typing this article, I was on a business trip in Lianzhou, Guangdong...
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