In August, Matters News published an interview with CDT founder and Editor-in-Chief Xiao Qiang. The interview, by freelance writer Xiran, examines the events and motivations that led Xiao to become a human rights activist and...
As part of their ongoing series “Internet Contest,” Radio Free Asia’s Mandarin...
For McClatchy, Stuart Leavenworth profiles CDT and the site’s founder, Xiao Qiang: Some...
Over the past year, Beijing has become ever more assertive in promoting “Internet...
China’s online controls have not stopped four of its biggest internet companies from...
Discussing new restrictions on Chinese instant messaging services such as WeChat, Jason Q. Ng...
In April, CDT Founder and Editor-in-Chief Xiao Qiang delivered a talk at TedxLiberdade in tune...
Rights lawyers Tang Jingling and Liu Shihui are among the latest to be detained as the government...
Ten years ago this month, China Digital Times was born with the publication of this post. Xiao...
China’s Supreme People’s Court and Supreme People’s Procuratorate issued a new...
At The New York Review of Books, Perry Link discusses CDT’s ‘Directives from the Ministry of Truth’ series of leaked propaganda instructions: In the end […], none of the parts of [CDT founder and...
At The Washington Post, Perry Link and CDT founder Xiao Qiang point out a hollow in Xi Jinping’s “China dream”, between individuals’ material wishes and the “spiritual” goals of the state....
At The Wall Street Journal, CDT’s editor in chief Xiao Qiang and Perry Link describe the use of online slang, such as sardonic honorifics and the “involuntary passive”, to not only sidestep censors but also...
Last weekend, following an increasingly familiar pattern, protests in the coastal city of Ningbo won the promised suspension of a controversial paraxylene (PX) plant. At China Media Project, David Bandurski discussed the role of...
In a press conference on Friday, Nobel Literature prizewinner Mo Yan gave an unexpected expression of support for fellow laureate Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned winner of the 2010 Peace Prize. Mo’s statement has dampened...
An online argument about environmental protests in Sichuan, which halted construction of a large molybdenum copper plant, reportedly spilled into a Beijing park on Friday. From Global Times: Wu Danhong, 33, an assistant...
At Asia Times, Peter Lee draws parallels between online reactions to the “My Dad is Li Gang” incident at Hebei University and John Pike’s pepper-spraying of seated students at UC Davis. These demonstrate, he...
From the Asia Times, Benjamin A Shobert reports: Xiao Qiang, the founder and chief editor of the China news website China Digital Times and an adjunct professor of journalism at UC Berkeley, testified recently that while...
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