Ex-journalist Luo Changping has been sentenced to seven months in prison for a Weibo post that questioned the wisdom of Chinese military strategy during the Korean War and mocked troops that froze to death. Luo was detained in...
An end-of-year listicle created by China’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, is a time capsule of the Chinese Communist Party’s view on Chinese digital culture—what it wants people to read, watch, and...
One of China’s premier investigative reporting outlets, Caixin, has been removed from the Cyberspace Administration of China’s (CAC) latest media “whitelist.” The whitelist governs how news is shared across the Chinese internet:...
Former journalist and anti-corruption crusader Luo Changping was detained by police on Hainan Island on October 7, a day after his personal Weibo account was deleted over a post questioning the justification for China’s...
At Deutsche Welle, Sabine Peschel talks to Audrey Jiajia Li, a former TV journalist who has turned...
Like the fall of Bo Xilai before it, last week’s announcement of a disciplinary investigation into...
Following is a list of some of the accounts that were deleted on March 13, 2014, as central authorities’ ongoing crackdown on social media appears to have made its way to popular messaging service WeChat (via CDT Chinese)....
A new government report shows a 9% drop last year in users of Sina Weibo and other Twitter-like...
Caijing deputy editor Luo Changping has been removed from his post and transferred to the...
South China Morning Post’s Patrick Boehler talked to award-winning Caijing deputy editor Luo...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
After being detained for seven weeks, journalist Liu Hu was formally arrested on September 30. The...
A roundup of online political cartoons from the past two weeks. Click any image to launch gallery view. The “new” Director of the State Bureau of Letters and Calls warmly welcomes petitioners to his office. In the...
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