An undergraduate’s video mimicking official “inspection” tours has become a flashpoint of discussion over cadres’ imperious attitudes and the reflexive deference shown to them in society. Shot on the campus of Yunnan State Land...
“I don’t raise pigs” (我不养猪 wǒ bù yǎng zhū), a Hunan police station’s nonsensical comment on the death of a woman in their custody, is the latest incidence of “gobsmacking rhetoric” (léi yǔ 雷语) to go viral. “Gobsmacking rhetoric”...
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
A Party handbook released in Ningbo lists 68 “improper words and actions” that Party...
Ou Shaokun, a Guangzhou-based anti-corruption activist known for his work campaigning against...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
CDT has translated a Ming’en Media (明恩传媒) video from 2012 that looks at opacity in China’s...
A new survey from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences sheds light on tarnished public...
When a government official defies all logic, some Chinese netizens chalk it up to living in a...
The South China Morning Post’s Stephen Chen reports that taxmen in Heilongjiang Province...
According to the PEW Research Center, official corruption is considered a “very big...
Following a freeze on construction of new government buildings aimed at reining in embarrassingly...
The South China Morning Post reports a flurry in local Chinese media on Tuesday over President Xi Jinping telling a young woman in Wuhan she was beautiful. Far from the baby-kissing antics of Western politicians, China’s leaders...
After his trial began last week, Lei Zhengfu, the former party secretary of Chongqing’s Beibei district who was removed from office after a sex-tape leaked and went viral, has been sentenced to hefty fines and 13 years in...
Andrew Jacobs of The New York Times reports that China’s free-spending government elites – and the businesses that cater to them – are feeling the squeeze under new president Xi Jinping’s austerity...
Yan Linkun, a vice chairman of Yunnan Mining Co. and local political advisor, smashed equipment at a boarding gate at Kunming Changshui Airport after missing two flights on February 19. From Josh Chin at the Wall Street Journal,...
Just before handing the baton of party power to Xi Jinping, former CCP general secretary Hu Jintao warned that corruption “could prove fatal to the party.” Since taking the reins, newly appointed general secretary Xi...
In December, the CCP Politburo vowed to cut down on the “extravagance, formalism and bureaucracy” that has long been a part of official party and state conduct. On the list of extravagant activities to be nixed were...
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