Sarcasm, Sincerity, and Constitution Copying
The Chinese Communist Party launched a campaign in March for its members to hand copy the party...
May 25, 2016
The Chinese Communist Party launched a campaign in March for its members to hand copy the party...
Oct 15, 2014
As of October 15, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
Apr 26, 2013
When something disappears from the Internet in China, netizens joke that it has been “river-crabbed,” a play on the euphemism “harmonized.” The River Crab Archive is a collection of blog post titles, weibo, and other materials...
Dec 17, 2012
The following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies...
Nov 29, 2012
The following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies...
Feb 18, 2010
Voice of America has an update to this CDT post from December on live-in protester Lu Daren, who was hired by the managers of the “Fish Castle” restaurant to prevent its destruction by wrecking crews: Unidentified...
Dec 24, 2009
The managers of a restaurant in Beijing marked for demolition have hired a man, Lu Daren, whom they advertised for on the internet, to protest the restaurant’s destruction: “I’m tired,” the 46-year-old...
Jul 26, 2009
The AP reports of a protest over a government land seizure in Zhejiang: More than 3,000 villagers in eastern China blocked a highway and clashed with police while protesting alleged official corruption in a land compensation...
Apr 21, 2008
From AFP: One person was killed and five critically wounded when police in southwest China clashed with protesters trying to block construction of a tungsten mine, state media and a rights group said on Tuesday. According to the...
Oct 31, 2007
From RFA Unplugged blog: Six villagers’ representatives from Wanglou village, Funing County in the eastern Chinse province of Jiangsu were detained on the night of Oct. 28 over a land compensation dispute, sources told RFA’s Cantonese service(ZH). The wife of one detained man, Yang Jiaren, said: “About 7 or 8 policemen intruded into our house […]