“Voices of Protest” is a special edition of CDT’s monthly “Voices of…” video series. This 15-minute video is a compilation of video footage, images, and audio from the large, spontaneous public protests that broke out in a...
The recent protests commemorating victims of the November 24 fire in Urumqi and criticizing harsh pandemic measures and repressive government policies employed a wide variety of protest-themed slogans, artwork, poems, essays,...
“Voices of May” is the first in CDT’s monthly “Voices of …” series of viral audio-visual content from pandemic lockdowns in Shanghai and other Chinese cities. Inspired by the original audio-visual compilation “Voices of April,”...
A YouTube video performance of “New Slave” 《新奴隶》, a song by Shanghai-based rapper Astro, has drawn attention for its frank lyrics about the chaos during Shanghai’s recent lockdown. After being widely circulated on...
On Monday of last week, Malaysian musician Namewee (Wee Meng Chee, 黃明志) learned that his YouTube account had been hacked and all of its content deleted. His account, created in 2006, had 3.27 million subscribers and over 1,000...
Nobody was surprised when Clubhouse, the viral app on which Chinese users shared their unfiltered views with global audiences, was blocked in China. Users had widely anticipated that Clubhouse would have to die. But the sudden...
These poems, attributed to 伯罗奔尼撒, or “Peloponnese,” were posted to WeChat by user 1号档案馆, or “Number 1 Archive.” CDT Chinese editors have archived them, and they are translated below with added links for...
“In This World” was a song by Chinese singer Wang Jianfang. In 2017, the song was a...
A government order to Chinese broadcasters issued last week, along with the hasty removal of...
Fans of Canto-pop star Denise Ho will now have trouble finding her music on several Chinese music...
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short biographies of...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
At The Guardian and on Twitter, Fergus Ryan highlights the likely political sensitivity of Taylor...
The story of China in Africa is not just one of lumbering and faceless state-owned enterprises...
The Rolling Stones’ second-ever performance in mainland China this week was lightly trimmed...
The New York Times’ Jonathan Ansfield speaks with musicians Abigail Washburn, Kai Welch and...
For the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy’s Banned Expression campaign, Dechen...
At China Real Time, Chuin-Wei Yap notes trending tributes on Sina Weibo to rock musician Lou Reed,...
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