At Tea Leaf Nation, Liz Carter surveys and translates parents’ online reaction to a list of books and films that the government will be promoting, many of which have strong nationalistic and ideological undertones: China’s...
Read MoreAs of July 19, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). Police Detain Xu Zhiyong and His Lawyer: Xu, a civil rights activist and himself a lawyer, was taken to...
Read MoreFollowing the success of widespread public protests against a planned uranium processing plant in Jiangmen, Guangdong province last week, Reuters notes that the project’s cancellation hinders Beijing’s nuclear power...
Read MoreWarning: Some of the images shown below are graphic. The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and bloggers often refer to...
Read MoreBeauty products company Dove is taking their “Real Beauty” campaign to China. The campaign aims “to challenge beauty stereotypes and invite women to join a discussion about beauty.” It has been rolled out in the USA, Canada,...
Read More‘Ai Weiwei on Edward Snowden and the Excesses of Nationalism’, published on ArtInfo, the online portal of international art magazine group Louise Blouin Media, is more about the artist and his prowess than his thoughts on the...
Read MoreState-run media on Tuesday praised China’s latest military advancement – an airplane capable of inducing nervous breakdowns. From Bloomberg: Detailed photos of the plane — known as the Gaoxin VII —...
Read MoreChina announced a crackdown on illegal medicine sales on Wednesday and said it would pursue stricter regulations for the pharmaceuticals industry, according to Reuters: The State Food and Drug Administration said the six-month...
Read MoreAlready a member of the cohort of privileged elite adolescents that often breed disdain in China due to his past misbehavior, Li Tianyi, son of decorated PLA singer Li Shuangjiang, was arrested for suspicion of involvement in a...
Read MoreHigh Peaks Pure Earth has translated the music video for “Patriotic Martyrs,” by Tibetan musician Jampel: “Patriotic Martyrs” By Jampel from HPeaks on Vimeo. High Peaks Pure Earth’s accompanying...
Read MorePopular Weibo user “Old Media Wang” (@传媒老王), a.k.a. media scholar Wang Zhiyong, found an interesting advertisement in the state-run newspaper Global Times in the style of a folk painting: 传媒老王: The Global Times published a...
Read MoreLong-time China resident Marketus Presswood reflects on his experiences of being black in China and on the history of relations between Chinese and prominent black intellectuals and cultural figures. From The Atlantic: While...
Read MoreJack Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba, has complained of “a terrible misunderstanding” after he allegedly compared his own management style with Deng Xiaoping’s handling of the 1989 June 4th crackdown....
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