Netizen Voices: As Sino-Japanese Tensions Rise, “Tourism is Treated like a Chamberpot, a Disposable Tool”
The diplomatic crisis between China and Japan continues to intensify, following Japanese Prime...
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Translations, on Hong Kong Disaster: “Any Lethal Fire Calls for Serious Reflection”
The catastrophic fire at Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court housing complex last week has been widely discussed on mainland social media. Many commenters mourned the dead as their number climbed past 100, then 150. Some of these...
Translation: Is Punishing Workers With Literal Suspension About Safety, or Power?
A photo showing three construction workers suspended from a gateway in their safety harnesses has sparked discussion online over the use of Cultural Revolution-style humiliation, workplace discipline versus personal dignity, the...
Translation: Students Line Up at Facial Recognition Gate While Fleeing Fire
On WeChat last weekend, "Fatty Zhao, scholar of Song Dynasty history" reflected on a recent fire at a Shandong university. The students’ escape route was blocked by facial recognition turnstiles through which...
Translation: After Guangzhou School Stabbing, “Censorship Won’t Make Us Feel Safe”
An October 8 stabbing outside an elementary school in Guangzhou, in which two nine-year-old students and an adult woman were injured, has drawn renewed attention to the phenomenon of indiscriminate knife attacks by people...
Harassment Campaign Targets Hong Kong Journalists
The work environment for journalists in Hong Kong continues to deteriorate. Last month, Stand News editors were convicted of sedition. This week, the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) revealed a widespread harassment...
Second Deadly Fire in a Week Kills 39, Mostly Students, in Jiangxi
A fire in Xinyu, Jiangxi Province killed 39 people and injured nine more on Wednesday, January 24. It was the second deadly blaze to claim student lives in a single week: a fire in an elementary school in Henan killed 13...
China Fumbles Ukraine Evacuations After Mocking Those Who Prepared
China has evacuated approximately 3,000 of its roughly 6,000 nationals in Ukraine. Before Russia’s invasion, the Chinese Embassy in Kyiv repeatedly denied the need for an evacuation, even as other governments urged their...
Translation: China’s Invisible Disabled Community
On the eve of the Beijing Paralympic Games, CDT presents the full-text translation of this article by Xie Renci for the health news site DXY.com. Originally published on International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the...
After Ultramarathon Deaths, Insiders Suggest Tragedy Was Inevitable
Last weekend, tragedy struck China’s sports community after 21 runners were killed following a freak change of weather during an ultra-marathon event in Gansu. Among the dead was Liang Jing, 31, a champion athlete who had...
Reports on Shaanxi Explosion Disappear Online, in Media
At least 14 people were killed and 150 injured in an explosion in Yulin, Shaanxi Province,...
Explosion at Chemical Plant in Zhejiang
An explosion at a chemical plant in Lishui, Zhejiang on Monday has continued a string of incidents...
Shortcuts and Lax Rules in Tianjin; Blast in Shandong
At The New York Times, Andrew Jacobs, Javier Hernandez, and Chris Buckley report on the lax...
After Tianjin, Shandong Blast Underlines Safety Gaps
An explosion at a Shandong chemical plant on Saturday has further highlighted safety concerns in...
Tianjin: Journalism Stands as Official Line Stumbles
A week on from a series of explosions in the port area of Tianjin, the confirmed death toll stands...
Chinese Students Flock To US, But Not For Long
The New York Times reports that more than 100,000 Chinese students seeking an academic edge spent...
Jilin Slaughterhouse Fire Raises Safety Concerns
The death toll from a fire at a Jilin slaughterhouse on Monday has risen to at least 120, prompting the detention of a senior official at the plant’s operator, anger on the part of bereaved relatives, and a call from the...
Minibus Accident Leaves 10 Dead, 10 Injured
After a bus crash that left 11 schoolchildren dead in Jiangxi, another accident involving an overloaded minibus killed ten people, five of whom were children, from The South China Morning Post: At least 10 people, including five...
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