The Municipal Bureau of Justice in Karamay, Xinjiang posted—and later deleted—a skit to Douyin (Chinese TikTok) boasting that WeChat automatically records user activity and shares it with law enforcement. The short video skit...
During the recent resurgence of COVID-19 in Xinjiang, self-media photojournalist Zhang Xinmen documented the situation in Karamay, the northern Xinjiang city where he lives. On his WeChat public account, Zhang posted a photo...
Late on Tuesday, a 6.5 magnitude earthquake hit Sichuan’s Jiuzhaigou County, killing at...
As mounting violence in recent years has led to an ongoing security crackdown in Xinjiang, the...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Weibo user @公孙宇的世界 has posted this image of a notice from the Karamay Public Security Bureau concerning yesterday’s unrest in Turpan, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: The media have already been silenced on the Xinjiang...
Chinese officialdom has been rocked by a half-dozen sex scandals in the past three weeks alone. The wave may signal that Xi Jinping is staying true to his promise to crack down on corruption. Is this correlation, or causation?...
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
The following interview with the former CCTV president Yang Weiguang was originally published in the Guangzhou-based Southern Weekend, to mark Chinese Journalists Day. The segment below, translated by CDT, is about his gagging...
ESWN has translated a list of Top Ten Sayings in China, from 6Park.com: At the end of 2005, there are many collections of top ten famous this or famous that of the year. Below is a list of ten famous sayings, which are all-time...
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