Rage Comics Brand Muzzled by Heroes and Martyrs Law
Baozou Big News Events (暴走大事件), a “rage comic”-inspired Chinese internet variety show...
by Josh Rudolph | May 21, 2018
Baozou Big News Events (暴走大事件), a “rage comic”-inspired Chinese internet variety show...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 26, 2017
CDT has long celebrated irreverent online humor in China, commissioning and publishing cartoons,...
by Anne Henochowicz | Sep 30, 2016
A record number of Chinese tourists have traveled outside of the mainland this year, and Hong Kong...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 8, 2016
Authorities in Shanghai have recently cracked down on rumors of tightening real estate...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 12, 2016
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Melissa M. Chan | Nov 27, 2012
China’s official Communist Party newspaper treated a satirical article naming North Korean leader Kim Jong-un the “Sexiest Man Alive” as a genuine report. The report by the People’s Daily quotes The Onion, a humor...
by Scott Greene | Nov 16, 2012
For Tea Leaf Nation, Yale University student Xiaoying Zhou translates a recent Renren.com blog post from a Peking University student that went viral to the tune of more than 26,000 shares as of Wednesday. While disguised as a...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 5, 2012
As Hillary Clinton visits China, Tea Leaf Nation’s David Wertime translates an anonymous satirical essay on America’s many supposed failings compared with the author’s native China. The post also appears at The...
by Sophie Beach | Jun 12, 2012
World Policy Journal profiles cartoonist Pi San, who has created numerous popular animations featuring a little boy, Kuang Kuang, including a satirical take on a children’s song, Little Rabbit Be Good: Pi San’s gift for...
by Scott Greene | Mar 19, 2012
As China’s online population of netizens continues to grow, NPR reports that Chinese cartoonists have used the web as a platform to take aim at the Communist Party as never before: Political cartoons have emerged over the...
by Scott Greene | Mar 6, 2012
Monday marked the official observance of Learn From Lei Feng Day in China, a holiday initiated by Mao Zedong in 1962 which turned a dead young soldier into a folk hero, and the central government has revved up the propaganda...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 20, 2012
Hexie Farm (蟹农场) is the name of a series of political cartoons created by an anonymous Chinese cartoonist who uses the pen name “疯蟹” or Crazy Crab. In recent months, his images have been widely and enthusiastically distributed...
by Anne Henochowicz | Feb 12, 2012
This satirical guide to playing the perfect Communist Party official originally appeared on Huaguoshan’s Caixin blog, but has since been removed. The blog includes guides for how to “look bad-ass” (装逼 zhuang...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 10, 2012
The World’s Mary Kay Magistad reports on the rise of political humor in China and the role of the Internet in spreading subversive messages through satire. Listen here: “When the situation is getting tougher, the humor is...
by Sandra Severdia | Dec 31, 2011
After the “Dark Knight” actor Christian Bale attempted to visit activist Chen Guangcheng on December 15, one of the security guards in CNN’s video clip who blocked and attacked Bale has become a popular Internet meme in China....
by Samuel Wade | Nov 17, 2011
The author of a controversial New York Times op-ed has replied to critics in a letter to The Atlantic and Foreign Policy, claiming that the piece was a mix of “serious issues and facts with irony and Swiftian...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 9, 2011
The political cartoonist known as “Crazy Crab,” who published a series of cartoons known as Hexie Farm, has gotten a lot of attention recently for his sharp, satirical drawings which take on censorship, propaganda,...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 26, 2011
The New York Times Magazine has a lengthy article looking at the role of humor and satire online in China: No government in the world pours more resources into patrolling the Web than China’s, tracking down unwanted content and...