Lawyer, Web Publisher Accused of Leaking Secrets
Rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong disappeared almost a month ago. The mystery surrounding his...
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LatestSupporters Issue Statement After Lawyer Disappears
Last week, rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong went missing after traveling to Changsha to assist the...
British Ministers Barred from Meeting Dalai Lama
Documentary series Dispatches reported this week on Chinese pressure to prevent national and local officials from meeting with the Dalai Lama (British I.P. address required) during his visit to Britain earlier this year. The...
“Protecting China’s Natural Habitat Feels Like a Game”
In a new short documentary, ‘Hopeful’, Jonah Kessel shows the work of environmental NGO Friends of Nature in using new laws to hold companies accountable for their pollution. The film focuses on a Yunnan...
Impressions of America From the Streets of China
At The Washington Post, U.C. Berkeley’s Center for Digital TV and The World presents a series of interviews with passers-by on America, Sino-U.S. relations, and how China’s rise will affect them. “In my...
A Few Upbeat Items, All Involving China
James Fallows offers some respite from the gutter oil, murdered journalists and migrant workers, beaten and abducted tourists, sex dungeons, missing women, corner-cutting builders, downtrodden villagers, besieged activists,...
Parody: Hitler Responds to Chinese Microblogging Scandal
Recently, Xie Zhiqiang, the director of a Chinese municipal health bureau, was found using a micro-blogging site to chat with his mistress (Jiang). The two were having intimate conversations on the site without knowing that it...
Chinese Politician Caught in Social Media Scandal (with Videos)
From the Washington Post Blog, by Hayley Tsukayama: Chinese politician Xie Zhiqiang has found himself in hot water after using Sina’s Weibo, a microblogging site similar to Twitter, to set up a liaison with a woman believed to...
Video: Shanghai in Motion
A series of videos commissioned by a French production company gives a glimpse of life in Shanghai during the Shanghai Expo. Two of the six episodes are below: Shanghai in Motion – Episode 1 from Shanghai in motion on...
Video: The Great Firewall Of China
The following video was produced by Hungry Beast, and the Chinese captions are provided by a new volunteer-based Chinese translation service: Translator: There are many more videos on the infamous Great Firewall. Please click...
Video Satire: Hu Ge’s (胡戈) Animal World: The Apartment Dweller, Starring Han Han (韩寒)
Satirist Hu Ge，producer of hugely popular videos mocking CCTV and filmmaker Chen Kaige, has struck again with another viral hit. This one, a critique of Internet censorship, stars several online celebrities and mocks a popular...
Music Video: “The Whole World is Laughing at China Being Stupid” (全世界都在笑中国傻)
Increasingly, music videos in China are not only a form of entertainment but carry a political message – sometimes subtle, sometimes not – as well. See this CDT translation for an example. ChinaHush has also...
Video: “网瘾战争 War of Internet Addiction” (Updated)
DigiCha has posted links to YouTube videos, now with English subtitles, mocking government efforts to crackdown on gaming (Videos embedded below). DigiCha points out that episode 6 (of 7) has the most obvious discussion of...
Video: Chinese Dissidents Committed to Mental Hospitals
The PBS Newshour reports on political dissidents and petitioners in China who are sentenced to psychiatric hospitals:
China Green: Big Tree Country (Video)
China Green, a project of Asia Society, has produced another documentary about China’s environmental devastation: Da Shu Xian, or Big Tree Country, in remote Sichuan Province is the site of a large sulfur mine, which...
Video: On Thinner Ice: The Tibetan Plateau in Peril
The Asia Socety’s China Green project continues its series on the disappearing glcaiers of the Tibetan plateau with two new videos. From “On Thinner Ice: Everest’s Vanishing Glaciers”: A quick visual tour...
Music Series: Chinese Erhu Music – Dance to the Moon (月舞)
The erhu music below, accompanied on the Chinese lute by Zhao Cong, is one of Yu Hongmei’s works, who is a well-known contemporary erhu player in China, carried by Youtube:
Documentary: China’s New Faces – Give Me back the Natural Scenery
From Youtube: Thirty years of reform and opening up brings to China as much prosperity as pollution resulted from industrial development. Industrial wastewater led to polluted river, allegedly the root cause of the drastic rise...
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