Activist Huang Qi Put on Trial for “Leaking State Secrets”
Veteran online activist and citizen journalist Huang Qi went on trial in Mianyang, Sichuan, on...
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LatestMobile Innovation and Internet Control in China
China currently has more internet users accessing the web with mobile devices than via personal...
Activist in Xinjiang Handed 19 Years in Jail
At Time, Simon Lewis reports that authorities in Xinjiang have jailed rights activist Zhang...
State Media Attacks Recently Detained Activist Wu Gan
On Wednesday May 20, police in Nanchang, Jiangxi placed activist Wu Gan, also known by supporters...
Li Tingting: “My Belief Is Firmer” After Detention
Following their release after five weeks in detention, the feminist activists Wu Rongrong, Zheng...
Xiao Qiang: “From Fart People to Citizens”
In April, CDT Founder and Editor-in-Chief Xiao Qiang delivered a talk at TedxLiberdade in tune...
Rage Against the Machine, or Work Within It?
Reviewing Emily Parker’s Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet...
Wang Qinglei: A Farewell to CCTV
One week ago, former CCTV producer Wang Qinglei posted an open letter to weibo criticizing his...
Yinchuan Residents Mobilise to Find Hearing Aid
A four-year-old girl with inborn hearing loss recovered her lost hearing aid after thousands of...
“Brother Watch” Sentenced for Corruption
Last August, Shaanxi Provincial Work Safety Administration Chief Yang Dacai became the target of...
Online Petition Site Sees Shaky Debut
China’s official online petition platform had a rough first day on Monday, according to The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report, which notes that the web site “triggered mockery across China’s social...
Obama, Minister of China Petitions?
The recent poisoning death of Huang Yang, a graduate student at Fudan University in Shanghai, has triggered inquiries among netizens over the unsolved 1994 poisoning of Zhu Ling, then an undergraduate at Tsinghua University....
Bloggers, and Government, Respond to Pig Crisis
As close to 15,000 (and counting) pig carcasses are being pulled from the Huangpu River, the story has become a hot topic on weibo and elsewhere online in China, with cartoonists satirizing the scene and others questioning how...
Weibo Users Call Out Water Pollution
Zhejiang entrepreneur Jin Zengmin has offered a reward to a senior Chinese official if he swims in a polluted river for 20 minutes, according to the South China Morning Post’s Chris Luo: “If the environmental protection...
Huang Qi on Blogging the Slow-Motion Revolution
Ian Johnson continues his New York Review of Books series of interviews with Chinese writers and thinkers by visiting activist Huang Qi in Chengdu. Huang, a human rights activist who uses his website 64tianwang.com to publicize...
Chinese Censors Lift the Veil on Bloggers
As the authorities tighten regulation of online speech by reinforcing real-name registration by Internet users, many people worry that the Internet as China’s last free speech zone might be desolated. From Nathan Green at...
China Tightens Internet Regulation
The Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress has issued new rules “to enhance the protection of personal information online and safeguard public interests”. The regulations broaden and...
Extinction Threatens 40% of China’s Minority Languages
A widespread fear among Tibetans, both at home and in exile, is that their language will die out. Education reforms relegating Tibetan to secondary status in schools are one of the core grievances against Chinese authorities,...
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