Recent year-end retrospectives and New Year’s messages published by various Chinese media outlets—including People’s Daily, Xinhua, Southern Weekly, and NetEase News—have offered vastly different interpretations of 2022, the...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. @Everyone Notice from the Public Security Internet Monitoring Department: Effective immediately, no...
The following instructions have been leaked and distributed online. Yili Super Topic #Yili Pandemic# @Everyone Notice: All internet commentary personnel are to open a campaign of comment flooding on this Weibo Super Topic in...
A viral video about a 66-year-old disabled rural man weathering adversity with resourcefulness and optimism has touched the hearts of hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens—and touched off a complex debate about poverty,...
An end-of-year listicle created by China’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, is a time capsule of the Chinese Communist Party’s view on Chinese digital culture—what it wants people to read, watch, and...
CDT has recently acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of this year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020,...
On WeChat earlier this month, user @FeichaiQingnian (“Feichai Youth”) posted an essay on their initial reaction to a post by the official Weibo account of the Xi’an Metro—and their feelings after learning that...
Early this month in Changzhou, Jiangsu, a fifth-grade girl committed suicide at school, stirring a debate about the ethics of pushing political ideology on schoolchildren. The girl, ten-year-old Miao Kexin, is shown on school...
Real estate tycoon turned commentator Ren Zhiqiang, known as “the Cannon” for his online outspokenness, was one of the few liberal “Big V” microbloggers remaining on Weibo after a 2013 rumor crackdown...
At Inkstone News, Mandy Zuo reports on the likely career-ending five-day detention of a young...
On Friday, The Washington Post’s Simon Denyer noted Chinese bookstores’ removal or...
China this week rolled out new rules on entertainment news as top lawmakers reviewed a draft of...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The pro-democracy news site iYouPort (@iyouport_news) tweeted the following propaganda directive:...
Fifty years ago this month began the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong’s...
Looking at Xi Jinping’s steady tightening of control over the media and long-running...
The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television (SAPPRFT),...
At the Hong Kong Free Press, Karen Cheung reports on wide-ranging new rules that will ban content...
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