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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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