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To mark the end of the year, CDT has collected the top ten most read stories on our site in 2016....
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by SW | Dec 29, 2016
Last week, Beijing prosecutors announced that no charges would be brought against five police...
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by SW | Dec 27, 2016
The Guangdong village of Wukan won global fame and some democratic concessions in 2011 when...
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by SW | Dec 23, 2016
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
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by SW | Dec 22, 2016
The tension between development and environmental protection in China has been most keenly felt in...
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by Josh Rudolph | Dec 22, 2016
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
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by Sophie Beach | Dec 21, 2016
Following new regulations that require websites to acquire special licenses before streaming...
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