âItâs as if the words âlayoffsâ and âunemploymentâ are somehow disgraceful, so instead people insist on using euphemisms such as âflexible employment,â â[workforce] optimization,â âslow employmentâ (also âdelayed employmentâ),...
As Chinaâs Lunar New Year holiday continues throughout this week, CDT Chinese editors have collected and republished over a dozen essays, articles, and other content reflecting the zeitgeist of the transition from 2023âs Year of...
Popular science and current events blogger Xiang Dongliangâs musing on the Chinese Lunar New Year 2024 is CDTâs Quote of the Day: What struck me most about CCTVâs âYear of the Dragonâ Spring Festival Gala? So many adverts. How...
In the midst of a troubled economy and stock market rout, a Peopleâs Daily Online article trumpeting a supposed nationwide âair of optimismâ drew so many derisive comments last week that its related hashtag was censored on...
A shaky video of chengguan, street-level urban management enforcers, ripping down decorative Spring Festival couplets in Jiangsuâs Pei County went viral this past week. The controversy metastasized after the freelance journalist...
February 6 marked the three-year anniversary of the death of Dr. Li Wenliang, a young ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital whose attempts to warn colleagues and the public of an emerging coronavirus made him an heroic...
Surveillance in Chinese cities is ubiquitous, with highly visible security cameras trained on most every intersection, public space, and building, but over the past decade, it has been seeping into the countryside as well. In an...
A Xi Jinping-themed twist on a Chinese Lunar New Year tradition drew incredulous reactions from Twitter users after it was shared by famed dissident Twitter account @whyyoutouzhele. âLantern riddlesâ are a staple of the Lantern...
The following censorship instructions have been distributed online. In order to create a festive and harmonious atmosphere for online discourse during Spring Festival, the Central Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has...
A novel propaganda methodâa âvideo callâ from Xi Jinping delivering Lunar New Year’s well-wishesâinspired titters after China Central Television (CCTV) shared it on Weibo. The Weibo link sent users to a faux WeChat...
Recent year-end retrospectives and New Yearâs messages published by various Chinese media outletsâincluding Peopleâs Daily, Xinhua, Southern Weekly, and NetEase Newsâhave offered vastly different interpretations of 2022, the...
As the Chinese New Year holiday approaches, social media is buzzing with âmaliciousâ comments about âmaliciousâ activities like âmalicious homecomings.â This miasma of malice materialized on January 20 thanks to a viral video...
This year’s CCTVâs Spring Festival Gala, the massively popular annual variety show aired since 1983, included blackfaced dancers in a performance titled âAfrican Song and Dance,â alongside belly dancers, flamenco...
During a January 20 press conference, Chinaâs National Health Commission stated that all hoping to return to countryside homes for next monthâs Spring Festival must first get tested for COVID. The following day, Xinhua News...
CDT has recently acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of this year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020,...
CDT has recently acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of this year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020,...
The October 1 National Day celebrations kicked off Chinaâs âGolden Week,â the annual seven-day travel holiday. This year, National Day and the Mid-Autumn Festival overlap, extending the holiday period for an extra day. According...
Last month, German carmaker Daimler repeatedly apologized for hurting Chinese feelings, disavowing...
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