On Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) criticized China’s zero-COVID policy and called on the government to transition to another strategy for dealing with the pandemic. The move was poorly received by the Chinese...
Several of China’s largest social media companies including Weibo, Douyin, Toutiao, Zhihu, Kuaishou, and Xiaohongshu have announced that they will display users’ IP addresses. The measure, which will affect the majority of...
A group of students under the impression they had discovered a WeChat “bug” that hides the phrase “200 jin of dumplings” (roughly 220 pounds) had in fact stumbled upon an obscure insult for Xi Jinping that triggers automatic...
A collection of 40 jokes about China’s “zero-COVID policy” and its enforcers was posted by @丁逸峰 on Zhihu, the popular Chinese question-and-answer site. Many are styled in the grand tradition of “Soviet Jokes,” which have, at...
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...
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...
Early reports on Xi’an’s lockdown—the strictest since the 2020 Wuhan lockdown, according to Chinese state media—indicate that hunger is a problem in the city of 11 million people. Food prices have soared and residents are unable...
These are trying times for imaginary friends, and for the media outlets who rely on them for timely, conveniently “on-message” quotes. A July 24 Facebook post by purported Swiss biologist Wilson Edwards cast doubt on the WHO...
Sensitive Words highlights keywords that are blocked from Sina Weibo search results. CDT...
CDT has long celebrated irreverent online humor in China, commissioning and publishing cartoons,...
Weibo user MeiyouYangXiansheng (@没有羊先生) posted a collection of web comics poking fun at the...
Weibo user MeiyouYangXiansheng (@没有羊先生) posted a collection of web comics poking fun at the...
Weibo user MeiyouYangXiansheng (@没有羊先生) posted a collection of web comics poking fun at the...
“Contraband—I’ve finally compiled nine images for Season One of #DomesticLogic...
Wang Liming, the political cartoonist known as Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒), went to visit Japan last...
In this one-act play, New York-based writer Bi Ruxie imagines two outcomes for Xi Jinping if China...
Celebrity CCTV host Bi Fujian found himself on the wrong end of public scrutiny this week when a...
New York-based Duowei News has posted a cartoon showing Caixin Media founding editor Hu Shuli and...
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