A fawning Xinhua article on Xi Jinping’s concern for citizens affected by natural disasters has become the latest piece of “low-level red, high-level black” propaganda. Intended to tout Xi’s steadfast leadership, it...
Less than a month after the conclusion of China’s hypercompetitive annual university entrance examination (“gaokao”), a satirical meme about an imaginary university has been banned on Weibo. The meme and its censorship reveal...
Ling Zhengce, the former vice-chairman of the Shanxi People’s Political Consultative...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
For the New York Times, Ian Johnson looks at the impact Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Xinhua reports that police are holding a man in connection with Wednesday’s explosions...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
China on Monday said it would offer financial rewards for reducing air pollution in six regions,...
The now deceased aunt of Guo Bin, the 6-year-old boy found with his eyes gouged out in Shanxi...
The Global Times reports on a reward offered for information about the 6-year-old boy whose eyes...
At China Dialogue, Luna Lin writes that the Shanxi government’s attempt to use tax cuts to...
State-owned conglomerate and Fortune 500 company China Resources is under investigation after state media journalist Wang Wenzhi accused senior executives of corruption and wrongdoing last month from his Sina Weibo account....
For Bloomberg Businessweek, Christina Larson writes that several recent studies have firmed up the link between pollution and birth defects in China and beyond: Tong Zhu, now a Princeton Global Scholar, together with research...
Chinese state media reports that a dam in Shanxi has collapsed causing the shutdown of a highway. This comes amid criticism of the Shanxi government’s cover up of a water contamination incident due to an industrial aniline...
Seawater desalination may offer a promising supplement to diversion of freshwater to China’s dry north-east, especially as severe droughts in the south place the latter’s basic logic in question. Critics argue,...
The New York Times’ Edward Wong connects several of the year’s major stories so far, including the Southern Weekly anti-censorship protests and cases of severe air and water pollution in Beijing and elsewhere. Each...
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