CDT Chinese editors have compiled a series of year-end articles on special topics such as 2023’s most sensitive and oft-censored words (parts one and two), most notable reports, outstanding people of the year (stand-up...
As the one-year anniversary of the lifting of China’s “zero-COVID” policy approaches, residents in many provinces in China have been dismayed and alarmed by the apparent return of mobile phone app-based health codes. Screenshots...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Update: The play on words in the blocked keyword “Liu Yunshan” is now explained. As of...
To mark the 20th anniversary of Internet access in China, Xinhua published an editorial last week...
At The Hollywood Reporter Clifford Coonan reports that BBC dramas Mad Dogs, Ripper Street, and...
SPOILERS FOLLOW! The second season of Netflix’s political drama House of Cards, released in...
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, a popular celebrity-focused American television talk show, has become...
Bloomberg reports the latest development in Beijing’s battle against the “cancer” of online rumors, the launch of a new rumor-busting website by companies including Baidu, Sina, Sohu, and Netease: The site...
The heavy-handed rewriting of the Southern Weekly newspaper’s traditional New Year greeting has triggered a staff strike, a barrage of letters and petitions, and an upwelling of popular support both on- and offline. In the...
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet Instructions” series to the Censorship Vault. These directives were originally published on Canyu.org (Participate) and date from 2005...
As more Hollywood firms look to Asian themes or partnerships in filmmaking due to China’s rise, Chinese audiences are becoming a growing factor in the distribution of films. With the deal between Disney and YOU on Demand,...
Since the opening of the Beijing Olympics four years ago—a declaration of national arrival which awed some and terrified others—the question has lingered of how London would follow it. Comparisons were inevitable, and perhaps...
The New York Times Chinese-language venture, launched this Wednesday, is off to a bumpy start....
Update: See below the original post. Since CDT posted a long list of terms related to Tiananmen...
Political astroturfing by the “50 Cent Party” is a well known phenomenon in China, with legions of commenters paid to push the government line: see, for example, CDT’s translation of likely 50 Cent posts...
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