The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
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On January 11, popular writer and critic Li Chengpeng reported on Weibo that he had received...
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Read MoreA series of book signings by writer and 6.5 million-follower weibo celebrity Li Chengpeng has become a lightning rod for tensions between leftists and liberals. In an incident at a signing in Beijing on Sunday, two men threw a...
Read MoreThe China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) has released their annual report on Internet usage in China. Fifty-one million people went online for the first time in China in 2012, bringing the total number to 564...
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The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by central government authorities, have...
Read MoreCDT previously reported on the tightening of food safety regulations in China. Despite these actions towards better food safety, concerns continue. China is now planning to offer up to a $48,000 reward for food safety informers,...
Read MoreAs China’s investment in Sudan’s oil continues, China’s Foreign Ministry says four Chinese workers have been abducted in Sudan’s North Darfur region, according to AP: Monday’s statement says the men are...
Read MoreThe currency of the People’s Republic of China is the renminbi 人民币, literally the “people’s money.” As comedian Zhou Libo explains, the Great Helmsman appears on all banknotes worth one yuan and above, while different ethnic...
Read MoreAs it tries to tap the burgeoning Chinese film market with local flavourings and joint ventures, Hollywood has increasingly had to navigate the unpredictable demands of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, or...
Read MoreFor his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab comments on the recent protests against censorship centered around the Southern Weekly newspaper. Xi Jinping is pictured walking a tightrope across...
Read MoreAn aniline spill in Shanxi on New Year’s Eve caused extended disruption of water supplies in the downstream Hebei city of Handan earlier this month. Public anger at the authorities’ five-day cover-up then led to four...
Read MoreGoogle executive chairman Eric Schmidt capped off his private trip to North Korea with a stop in Beijing late last week to meet with Chinese mobile application developers, according to The People’s Daily: Duncan Clark,...
Read MoreThe Globe and Mail’s Mark MacKinnon checks in from Wukan, where the small village has struggled to deliver results from its democratic experiment: What we found was a hardscrabble village – Wukan is home to rice farmers...
Read MoreThe Economist details the rise of Chinese computer giant Lenovo, from its humble start in a guard shack to the growing pains that followed its 2005 acquisition of IBM’s corporate PC division: Given all this, its recent...
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