CDT 2025 Year-End Roundup: Quotes of the Year (Part One)
As 2025 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 year’s most outstanding quotes, reports, podcasts and...
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Netizen Voices: Sardonic Comments on “How to Get Back at Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi” Offer Socio-Political Commentary on China
Ongoing Sino-Japanese diplomatic tensions—touched off last month by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae...
Read MoreCDT’s “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for November 2025, Part Two
CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message “404: content not found”)...
Read MoreCDT’s “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for November 2025, Part One
CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message “404: content not found”)...
Read MoreVideo Emerges of General’s Trial for Refusing Tiananmen Orders (With Transcript)
The New York Times’ Chris Buckley reports on the recent emergence of footage from the trial of General Xu Qinxian, who refused to lead the PLA’s 38th Group Army into Beijing to confront protesters in late May, 1989,...
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Translation: Residence-permit Stamps for ADHD Patients – “It’s How We Treat Pigs, Right?”
Last month, Southern Weekly reported on a policy at some hospitals in Shanxi requiring that ADHD patients get a "Class 1 Psychiatric Drug Prescribed" stamp in their hukou household registration booklet before receiving...
Read MoreTranslations: Enthusiasts Fear Tightening Grip on Crosstalk Stage Comedy
Two recent WeChat posts express concern about mounting official interference in 相声 xiàngsheng, the traditional northern-Chinese form of fast-paced stage comedy known in English as crosstalk. These anxieties are acute, but not...
Read MoreTranslations, on “Lessons Learned” from Kunming Railway Accident: “We’ve Heard These Promises Too Often”
Only hours after last week’s catastrophic Wang Fuk Court fire in Hong Kong—from which the death toll now stands at 159—tragedy struck again at Kunming’s Luoyang railway station. A test train ran into a group of...
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Netizen Voices: As Sino-Japanese Tensions Rise, “Tourism is Treated like a Chamberpot, a Disposable Tool”
The diplomatic crisis between China and Japan continues to intensify, following Japanese Prime...
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Translation: Farewell to a Deleted WeChat Account, “Du Fu of Huanhua Creek”
Late last month, WeChat moderators’ axe fell on "Du Fu of Huanhua Creek," apparently prompted by a post questioning online comments about Sino-Japanese tensions. On their other account, "History...
Read MoreTranslations, on Hong Kong Disaster: “Any Lethal Fire Calls for Serious Reflection”
The catastrophic fire at Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court housing complex last week has been widely discussed on mainland social media. Many commenters mourned the dead as their number climbed past 100, then 150. Some of these...
Read MoreCDT’s “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for October 2025, Part Two
CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message “404: content not found”)...
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