Minitrue: Delete Article on Nuclear Project Suspension
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
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Sensitive Words: Sending Away the Plague God (Updated)
Update: The play on words in the blocked keyword “Liu Yunshan” is now explained. As of...
State Media Defends “Internet Management” as U.S. TV Shows are Kicked Offline
To mark the 20th anniversary of Internet access in China, Xinhua published an editorial last week...
BBC Partners With Sohu to Offer On-Demand Dramas
At The Hollywood Reporter Clifford Coonan reports that BBC dramas Mad Dogs, Ripper Street, and...
China in House of Cards, and House of Cards in China
SPOILERS FOLLOW! The second season of Netflix’s political drama House of Cards, released in...
Ellen DeGeneres Debuts in China
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, a popular celebrity-focused American television talk show, has become...
Websites Unite With Party To Squash Rumors
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...
Southern Weekly Censorship Faceoff Continues (Updated)
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...
Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (29)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (27)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (18)
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...
“Mad Men” Reflects Modern Life in China
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,...
How China Saw the Olympic Opening Ceremony
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...
No Weibo for the New York Times
The New York Times Chinese-language venture, launched this Wednesday, is off to a bumpy start....
Sensitive Words: Tiananmen (2) (Update)
Update: See below the original post. Since CDT posted a long list of terms related to Tiananmen...
Fighting the 50 Cent Party's Commercial Counterparts
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...
Charles Zhang (张朝阳)：Without Reform There is No Way Out
Charles Zhang (Zhang Chaoyang 张朝阳) is the Founder, Chairman and current CEO of Sohu, China’s second largest Internet portal and the first Chinese-language search engine. Widely recognized as one of China’s Internet...
Blogging for Change (Video Added)
Sohu recently hosted a blogger dinner on the topic “how blogging has changed our lives.” Below is the transcript in part, from Oiwan Lam of Global Voices: Liu Xiaoyuan: Blogging is great, I have opened more than 20...
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