Over the past few weeks, tens of thousands of Chinese homebuyers have banded together and refused to continue paying mortgages on unfinished homes. Homebuyers in China frequently purchase “pre-sale” homes long before developers...
This week saw the proliferation of COVID conspiracy theories on Chinese social media, the suppression of a popular hashtag about the Xuzhou trafficking and abuse case, and a Global Times broadside aimed at discrediting the...
In their efforts to trace and contain a rapidly growing coronavirus outbreak in Hong Kong, authorities have identified a prime suspect of transmission: hamsters. After one employee of a pet shop tested positive for COVID-19 in...
CDT Editor’s Note: As we enter 2022, CDT has compiled a special series of features for our readers, offering a look back at the people, events, controversies, memes and sensitive words that defined the past year. Some of this...
The Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon is named after an unassuming alpaca who galumphed past the censors in 2009 to become a Chinese internet sensation. In the long decade since, the Lexicon has tracked online resistance discourse in 365...
The following term comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to...
Veteran online activist and citizen journalist Huang Qi went on trial in Mianyang, Sichuan, on...
China currently has more internet users accessing the web with mobile devices than via personal...
At Time, Simon Lewis reports that authorities in Xinjiang have jailed rights activist Zhang...
On Wednesday May 20, police in Nanchang, Jiangxi placed activist Wu Gan, also known by supporters...
Following their release after five weeks in detention, the feminist activists Wu Rongrong, Zheng...
In April, CDT Founder and Editor-in-Chief Xiao Qiang delivered a talk at TedxLiberdade in tune...
Reviewing Emily Parker’s Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet...
One week ago, former CCTV producer Wang Qinglei posted an open letter to weibo criticizing his...
A four-year-old girl with inborn hearing loss recovered her lost hearing aid after thousands of...
Last August, Shaanxi Provincial Work Safety Administration Chief Yang Dacai became the target of...
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...
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....
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