A short announcement from Xinhua last night indicated that the “serious law violation case” against disgraced Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai has been transferred to “judicial organs,” without providing...
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The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms...
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In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
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After refusing to publish a Global Times article concerning the protests at Southern Weekly,...
Read MoreA tentative deal appeared to have been reached on Wednesday between Southern Weekly staff and Guangdong propaganda authorities, ending a week-long standoff over heavy-handed editing of the newspaper’s New Year message. But...
Read MoreFurther reports have come out about a negotiated agreement between local propaganda officials and Southern Weekly to end the protests over heavy-handed censorship and allow the paper to publish on schedule tomorrow. From the New...
Read MoreCDT Chinese is gathering images and comments from the ongoing Southern Weekly protest in Guangzhou and beyond. Here is a selection: WeiboSearch: Limiting Search to Individual Weibo Accounts: Currently, there are two ways to do...
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The International Business Times posted this message to its Weibo account on December 7. The...
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Read MoreAs China continues to work on its high-speed railways amid concerns over corruption, a subway train derailed during a test run in Kunming leaving a driver dead and injuring another, from AFP: The first carriage of the train ran...
Read MoreAmid concerns about childrens’ safety due to recent traffic accidents involving children and knife attack at a primary school, the BBC reports a fire at an orphanage in Henan has left seven children dead: Four children...
Read MoreThe heavy-handed rewriting of the Southern Weekly newspaper’s traditional New Year greeting has triggered a staff strike, a barrage of letters and petitions, and an upwelling of popular support both on- and offline. In the...
Read MoreWhen Alibaba Group president Jack Ma and Dalian Wanda chairman Wang Jianlin took the stage together as two of China Central Television’s 2012 “Economic Figures of the Year” in December, their divergent views on...
Read MoreThe Chinese government will pursue reforms to its Re-education Through Labor (RTL) system, according to a report in Xinhua News which followed a national political and legal work conference in Beijing on Monday. From the...
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