Two weeks after the U.S.’ and China’s foreign ministers met for face-to-face dialogues for the first time under the Biden administration, relations between the two governments remain solidly frosty. But as both sides...
After making history at the beginning of this month by becoming the first Asian woman to win best director for her movie “Nomadland,” Chloé Zhao was initially showered with praise from Chinese state media. That was...
Viral Content is a new CDT series introducing terms coined and used by Chinese netizens during the 2019-2020 COVID-19 outbreak. These terms include both subversive critiques of government policies and nationalistic support of...
In 2020, CDT Chinese editors launched the CDT Censorship Digest series. The series will collect and quote from news and online speech that was censored by Chinese authorities during the previous month, as well as summarize...
This week, Chinese magazine People (Renwu 人物) published an interview with Ai Fen, the director of the emergency department at Wuhan Central Hospital. In the interview, which was quickly censored, Ai detailed her censure by...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
After Tsai Ing-wen won Taiwan’s presidential election by a landslide in January, thousands...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Last month, censors took note of a photo from the March, 2013 Chinese People’s Political and...
David Barboza at the New York Times looks at live karaoke performances on YY.com, a popular...
On December 5, prominent micro-blogger and Worker’s Daily magazine’s editorial...
A four-year-old girl with inborn hearing loss recovered her lost hearing aid after thousands of...
Is censorship all about deleting weibo posts and locking up dissidents? Not necessarily. Monica...
David Goldenberg at The New Yorker looks at a relatively recent social media phenomenon in China...
State-run media on Tuesday praised China’s latest military advancement – an airplane capable of inducing nervous breakdowns. From Bloomberg: Detailed photos of the plane — known as the Gaoxin VII —...
According to new figures from the China Internet Network Information Center, there are now 591 million Internet users in China. AP reports: China’s population of Internet users has grown to 591 million, driven by a 20...
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