A solitary protestor hung two banners calling for Xi Jinping to be removed from office and exhorting the populace to “Be citizens, not slaves,” an extremely rare act of overt political defiance on the eve of the 20th Party...
Li Tiantian, the pregnant Hunan elementary school teacher forcibly committed to a psychiatric ward after voicing support for a fired Shanghai professor, has been released from the hospital—and chosen self-exile. In December...
As the Chinese New Year holiday approaches, social media is buzzing with “malicious” comments about “malicious” activities like “malicious homecomings.” This miasma of malice materialized on January 20 thanks to a viral video...
Since his ascension to the top of the Party in 2012, Xi Jinping has shown little tolerance for “historical nihilism,” a catch-all term for critical appraisals of the Party’s rise and rule. The Party made a concerted push to...
A campaign of repression against Islam is underway in Muslim-majority areas across China. While the construction of mass internment camps seemingly remains unique to Xinjiang, two new reports by The Los Angeles Times and...
These poems, attributed to 伯罗奔尼撒, or “Peloponnese,” were posted to WeChat by user 1号档案馆, or “Number 1 Archive.” CDT Chinese editors have archived them, and they are translated below with added links for...
The following poetry collection was written by “Wei Shuiyin” (弱水吟, given name Long Qiaoling 龙巧玲), who has been serving as a nurse in one of the dozen makeshift fangcang hospitals set up in Wuhan to combat the...
Dr. Li Wenliang, one of the first people to sound the alarm on the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, was officially admonished by authorities for “spreading rumors” about the disease. Later his case was used by state media as a...
Chinese-Swiss poet Yang Lian has dedicated the following poem to the courageous demonstrators in...
Scholar and poet Ablet Abdurishit Berqi is one of the 338 Uyghur intellectuals confirmed to be...
After a deadly fire in Beijing on November 18, authorities launched a crackdown on unsafe...
Jailed since 2009, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo was moved from prison last month to...
As imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo remains in hospital critically ill with...
Rights defense lawyer Xia Lin has just been dealt a 12-year prison sentence for fraud, seeming...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Poetry is revered in China, but is it still a living art form? In 2006, Han Han said modern...
Taiwanese manufacturing contractor Foxconn—a firm responsible for assembling as much as 40% of...
Poet and publisher Shen Haobo was born in 1976 in Taixing, Jiangsu Province. He is a leading...
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