The recent death of a graduate student at China’s prestigious Fudan University, allegedly poisoned by a jealous roommate, evoked memories of the 1995 Zhu Ling case, reignited online fury that the case remains unsolved, and...
Read MoreLuxury watchmakers, who have in recent years seen massive sales growth in the Chinese market, have since last summer seen that growth stifled. While President Xi Jinping’s campaign to cleanup corruption and crack down...
Read MoreThe following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by various central (and sometimes local) government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and...
Read MoreThe New York Times Magazine takes a look at China’s “human flesh search engines”: AT THE BEIJING headquarters of Mop, Ben Du, the site’s head of interactive communities, told me that the Chinese term for...
Read MoreThis week’s featured article in New Weekly (新周刊) focuses on the Internet in China. Part 1 of their feature is a highlight of the “Best of the Web 2009,” chosen by the magazine, industry insiders, and netizens....
Read MoreChinaGeeks translates a blog post Ai Weiwei wrote last week, before undergoing surgery in Germany. From their introduction: On the afternoon of Sept 9th, Liu Yanping saw she had a missed call from a number she didn’t recognize...
Read MoreChina’s notorious “human flesh search engines” are now the subject of their own movie. From NBC News: “Invisible Killer,” produced and co-written by Xie Xiaodong, is the first movie to broach the...
Read MoreAs previously reported on CDT, Chinese government regulators have ordered Google to suspend some of its search functions due to the pornographic content available through its search engine. More details from the New York Times:...
Read MoreA luxurious 14-day trip to Africa and the Middle East by Guangdong local officials financed by public funds has been met with intense scrutiny after a netizen posted a indicting 17-minute video of the trip’s exploits...
Read MoreSpeaking about the power of the “human flesh search engine” of Chinese netizens, the following post “What kind of communist is Mr. Chen Hua?” is quickly becoming the next case. Chen Hua (陈华)，Deputy...
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