After 200 days, the long-running “Arctic Catfish” scandal has reached a conclusion, dissatisfying and anticlimactic as it may be. It began after social media user “Arctic Catfish” (北极鲶鱼, Běijí Niányú), a young Chinese woman...
Over 50 million people are under some form of lockdown across China as the country struggles with its single biggest coronavirus outbreak since Wuhan in 2020. All of Jilin Province has been put under lockdown, as have the cities...
Censors have scrubbed a father’s anguished “plea for help,” written in the aftermath of his son’s suicide, from Chinese social media. His son, a 17-year-old Hubei high school student, committed suicide after being forced to work...
May Day was conceived as a celebration of the eight-hour work day by a coalition of socialists and labor activists in fin de siècle Europe. Over a century later, Shenzhen’s Communist Party Committee commemorated May Day by...
A court in Shenzhen has handed prison sentences to ten Hong Kongers who were caught attempting to flee Hong Kong for Taiwan by boat in August 2020. Two others, who are underaged, were repatriated to Hong Kong on Wednesday, where...
Xi Jinping’s speech on the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone—the first of China’s market reform policy SEZs—outlined his vision for an increasingly domestically-oriented economy, better able...
Three social workers were detained last week in police raids as China’s crackdown on labor...
This series is a recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government authorities in...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
About 50 student activists and workers advocating in Shenzhen for the establishment of an...
Video of a police officer verbally abusing two women on the drive to the police station has...
An official investigation has been launched after Sunday’s massive landslide in Shenzhen buried...
On Monday, rescue work continued at an industrial park in Shenzhen a day after a massive landslide...
Citing Chinese state media, the BBC reports that at least 59 are missing after a landslide buried...
On July 1, Hong Kong-based Lutheran pastor Philip Woo was called to the religious affairs bureau...
A Shenzhen-based webmaster who had published online articles critical of Alibaba says he was...
Protests that began Sunday against a proposed paraxylene (PX) plant in Maoming, Guangdong...
The New Yorker’s Michael Specter visits BGI Shenzhen, the world’s largest sequencer of...
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