Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) is a monumental figure in modern Chinese history. The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate died in custody in a Shenyang hospital in 2017 while being treated for liver cancer. A prolific writer, Liu first rose...
A WeChat essay on the “sore need” for a continuation of the May Fourth Movement’s legacy of “resistance against the powers that be,” published on the eve of the movement’s 104th anniversary, was taken down by censors. The essay,...
At times, parsing propaganda for deeper meaning is difficult. At others, the (unintentional) message is hidden in plain sight. In October 2018, one bus passenger in Guizhou’s Nayong County realized that a roadside billboard...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. Strictly delete any reposts,...
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China,...
Saturday is the 100th anniversary of the 1919 May 4th Movement, sparked by China’s...
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China,...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
With the 25th anniversary of the 1989 June 4th crackdown still fresh in memory (at least outside...
As of May 27, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user”...
At the Los Angeles Review of Books blog, Rebecka Eriksson discusses Xi Jinping’s...
Wen Yiduo, poet, professor, and staunch critic of the Kuomintang (KMT), was unafraid to speak his...
At ChinaFile, Sun Yunfan, Orville Schell and Damien Ma discuss the gap between members of China’s post-80s generation and their parents, based on a recent article by James Palmer that was featured on CDT last week. Sun...
The following dispatch was sent to CDT by an American who was visiting Shanghai during the recent anti-Japan protests: Shanghai, September 18, 2012 – by Jane Wang On 9-18 （九一八), the anniversary of the Mukden Incident, I...
China Elections and Governance has translated an op-ed first published in the Southern Metropolis Weekly. THe editr in charge of publishing it was later removed from his post. The piece, by historian and newspaper columnist Hong...
Danwei looks at domestic magazine coverage of the 90th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement: “Youth” is the day’s keyword. May 4 was designated National Youth Day in 1949 to commemorate the students in the...
On openDemocracy, Jeffrey N Wasserstrom writes about boycotts in Chinese history and more recently: In the perspective both of China’s 20th-century history and its last year, the spreading language of boycott offers two...
Jottings from a Granite Studio discusses the importance of Charter 08 in a historical context, in honor of Cai Yuanpei’s birthday: …To dismiss the importance of Charter 08 because it is the product of a single class...
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