Marriage rates in China continued to plummet last year, deepening the countryâs demographic crisis and highlighting the publicâs changing attitudes towards marriage, childbirth, family planning, and more. Despite government...
As 2024 draws to a close, CDT editors are compiling a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this yearâs most outstanding quotes, reports, podcasts and...
As 2024 draws to a close, CDT editors are compiling a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this yearâs most outstanding quotes, reports, podcasts and...
Viral video and transcripts of two unusually critical speeches about the state of the Chinese economyâby economists Gao Shanwen and Fu Peng, respectivelyâhave been deleted from multiple platforms almost as fast as netizens can...
For college students in the city of Zhengzhou, Henan province, it was a brief moment of freedom: a short-lived craze for cycling overnight on ride-share rental bikes to the nearby city of Kaifeng for a bit of fun, food, and...
A murderous rampage in Zhuhai, Guangdong that left 35 dead and scores wounded was met with a now all-too-familiar refrain on the Chinese internet: âXianzhongâ is back. Zhang Xianzhong (ćŒ çźćż , ZhÄng XiĂ nzhĆng), a Ming-era peasant...
Chinaâs State Council unveiled new policies last week intended to promote parenthood and foster a more âreproduction-friendly society,â which were met with muted skepticism. Along with other media pieces on the subject,...
Several recent reports and articles highlight the experience of those in China who seek to leave the country in search of better opportunities or greater freedom abroad. On Wednesday, the Pew Research Center published a report...
For the past several months, China’s State Council Information Office has been hosting a series of press conferences intended to showcase the accomplishments of various government ministries and provincial-level...
Chinese netizens have had a lot to say about economist Ma Jiantangâs prescription for adapting to the âera of longevityâ by reclassifying workers between the ages of 60-70 as âthe youthful elderly,â those between the ages of...
On April 14, Sina News Hot Topics published a lengthy article on Weibo under the clickbait headline âThe First Batch of DINKs, Exposed: Where Are They Now, and Do They All Regret Not Having Kids?â The four-part article focused...
Among Xi Jinpingâs many Party-bestowed titles and hundreds of banned netizen nicknames is one that points to his penchant for claiming personal leadership over and insight into seemingly everything: âCompass-in-Chief.â The...
If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 in the United States, or find local resources in the International Suicide Prevention Wiki. The murder of a...
A post about a Guangzhou public opinion poll showing the largest drop in public satisfaction in 30 years has been deleted after being published by the WeChat account of He Wenwei, a Guangzhou-based business consultant who blogs...
âItâs as if the words âlayoffsâ and âunemploymentâ are somehow disgraceful, so instead people insist on using euphemisms such as âflexible employment,â â[workforce] optimization,â âslow employmentâ (also âdelayed employmentâ),...
Popular science and current events blogger Xiang Dongliangâs musing on the Chinese Lunar New Year 2024 is CDTâs Quote of the Day: What struck me most about CCTVâs âYear of the Dragonâ Spring Festival Gala? So many adverts. How...
CDT Chinese editors have compiled a series of year-end articles on special topics such as 2023âs most sensitive and oft-censored words (parts one and two), most notable reports, outstanding people of the year (stand-up...
The following themes, and the six covered in part two, are not the âmost censoredâ words of 2023 but rather a retrospective of topics that the Party-state deemed unfit for Chinese eyes, selected by our Chinese team. While some...
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