Minitrue: Do Not Hype Jiang Zemin’s Broken Tablet [Updated]
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
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Universities Urged to Battle Harassment, Discrimination
South China Morning Post’s Laura Zhou and The New York Times’ Amy Qin report...
High-Speed Rail Network Passes 12,000km Mark
The opening of the Shenzhen-Xiamen and several other high-speed rail lines on Saturday brought the...
Censorship Vault: Miswriting Xi Jinping’s Name
The following propaganda directive was first published by Reporters Without Borders. Xiamen...
Censorship Vault: The Lai Changxing Case
Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions from the archives of the...
The Violence That Poisons the Air We Breathe
At South China Morning Post, Chang Ping decries the socially corrosive effect of capital punishment and the vitriolic rhetoric surrounding it. He cites media coverage of Xiamen bus arson suspect Chen Shuizong, spared from facing...
Xiamen’s Bus Arsonist: the Unlikely Martyr
At The Atlantic, Fei Wang describes the hard life of Chen Shuizong, the alleged arsonist in the Xiamen BRT bus fire that killed 47 people on June 7, who like suicide bomber Qian Mingqi two years ago has received a surprising...
Report: Suicidal Man Caused Xiamen Bus Blaze
State-run media this weekend claimed that an unemployed man on a suicide mission was responsible for the fire that killed 47 people on a bus in Xiamen on Friday, according to Edward Wong of The New York Times: The reports...
Ministry of Truth: Peng Liyuan, Xiamen Bus Fire
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. State Council Information Office: All websites are asked to immediately find and remove images of...
Ministry of Truth: Xiamen Bus Fire Claims 47 Lives
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. State Council Information Office: Regarding the “Xiamen, Fujian BRT bus explosion,”...
River Crab Archive: Month-long Xiamen Sit-in Ended
When something disappears from the Internet in China, netizens joke that it has been “river-crabbed,” a play on the euphemism “harmonized.” The River Crab Archive is a collection of blog post titles, weibo, and other materials...
Ming Pao: Rules for Anti-Japan Protests
The Hong Kong paper Ming Pao reports on the ongoing anti-Japan demonstrations sweeping China: Strict Control Over Anti-Japanese Demonstrations: Public Employees Forbidden to Encourage or Take Part Ming Pao Newsflash: Numerous...
New Series: From the Censorship Vault
Editor’s Note: From the Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions...
Court Sentences “Most Wanted Fugitive” to Life
Chinese state media reported Friday that a Xiamen court convicted and sentenced smuggling kingpin Lai Changxin to life in prison, likely putting to rest a legal battle that began more than a decade ago when Lai escaped...
China Says Will Shut Plant as Thousands Protest
When Tropical Storm Muifa descended on China’s north-east last week, damage to dykes in Dalian sparked fears of leaks from a coastal chemical plant. The threat was averted, but thousands of local residents marched today,...
Zhao Yanqing (赵燕菁): Why Are Developed Countries So Worried about China but not India?
The following quote by Dr. Zhao Yanqing (赵燕菁), Director of the Planning Bureau of Xiamen City, Fujian Province is from his interview with Beijing-based paper First Finance Daily (Yicai) on September 2, 2010, translated by CDT:...
China Approves Controversial Chemical Plant In New City
From Reuters: China’s environment ministry has approved a petrochemical plant that drew fierce opposition over feared pollution in one eastern city, approving its construction several miles to the west. Plans to build the...
China Torch Relay: Xiamen
From BBC News: As part of a series following the Olympic torch around China, the focus turns to Xiamen, a city on the front line of disputes between Beijing and Taipei. A stretch of beach on China’s south-eastern coast...
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