Families of Dissidents Threatened Over Open Letter
As the police in China continue their search for clues to the provenance of a sharply-worded open...
Wen Yunchao
Xi Resignation Letter: 20 Detained, Site Faces Closure
On March 4, the opening day of the annual top political meetings in Beijing, the state-linked...
China’s Overseas Critics Under Pressure
On the Committee to Protect Journalists’ blog, Yaqiu Wang writes about recent incidents in...
China Ranked World’s Worst for Internet Freedom
China ranked last among the countries included in Freedom House’s 2015 Freedom on the Net...
Badiucao: Marxism-Leninism-Steamed Bunism
Last week, the script of a speech delivered by Xi Jinping at the Central Party School back in...
Minitrue: Don’t Rain On Our Military Parade
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Cartoonist Badiucao Targeted in Twitter Smear Campaign
@badiucao #SOS my twitter account is being attacked #五毛 by Chinese Internet commentators‘ slander...
Journalist Fired Over Work for Hong Kong Website
The New York Times’ Kiki Zhao reports the sudden firing of journalist Song Zhibiao over...
Crackdown Hits Popular WeChat Accounts
Amid the central government’s ongoing crackdown on online public opinion and as innovation...
Crackdown on Liberals Gains Pace Online
Since Xi Jinping came to power just less than a year ago, hopes that his administration would...
Chinese Wikipedia Makes Comeback After Censorship
South China Morning Post’s Ivan Zhai reports renewed momentum on Chinese Wikipedia, after...
Scholars Cautiously Urge Political Reform
An open letter released on Christmas Day seeks to sway the new Party leadership towards renewed political reform, encouraged by Xi Jinping and others’ strong words against corruption and bureaucratic excesses. From...
China’s Latest Twitter Criminal
Even beyond China’s Great Firewall, Twitter is not always a safe haven for the country’s more...
Amended Criminal Procedure Law Passes, 2,639 to 160
The National People’s Congress has passed a controversial amendment to China’s Criminal Procedure Law which will, if faithfully implemented, strengthen suspects’ rights in ordinary—i.e. non-political—cases. But...
Where an Internet Joke Is Not Just a Joke
The New York Times Magazine has a lengthy article looking at the role of humor and satire online in China: No government in the world pours more resources into patrolling the Web than China’s, tracking down unwanted content and...
Mao’s Legacy Still Divides China
Responding on Twitter to news of Osama bin Laden’s death, blogger Wen Yunchao wrote that “Bin Laden is dead, but Mao Zedong still lives on.” As authorities cultivate celebrations of China’s Communist...
Residents Protest Garbage Incinerator in Guangdong (Updated with Videos)
Residents of Panyu, Guangdong, are protesting plans to build a garbage incinerator in their city, and the actions are being tweeted live at the hashtag #pylj. @ellachou is translating many of the tweets into English. Photos have...
Isaac Mao: Obama Takes on the China Firewall
Isaac Mao, a Shanghai based social entrepreneur, blogger, software architect and fellow of Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Law School of Harvard University, writes on the Guardian: Obama’s reference to censorship...
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