Ministry of Truth: Holiday Leftovers
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by central government authorities, have...
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Naked Officials 2.0
After the new Party leadership was sworn in during the 18th Party Congress, the Chinese government has been actively cultivating an image that is warmer and friendlier than generations past, including distributing images of...
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Word of the Week: Check the Water Meter
The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms...
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Censorship Vault: Consequences Will Be Grave
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
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Sensitive Words: Protesters, Ox Demons, and More
As of January 2, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
Read MoreBabies for Sale?
Al Jazeera looks into the the reasons behind China’s child trafficking: Child trafficking is widespread in China, many say, because of the country’s one-child policy and the demand it creates for sons. […] The...
Read MoreThe Great Smog of China
After years of increasing public demand, the Chinese government is to release pollution data in 74 cities. Malcolm Moore at Telegraph reports: […T]he Chinese state media said on Sunday that 496 monitoring stations would...
Read MoreActivists Break Security Cordon Around Liu Xia
Liu Xia, wife of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, has been held under house arrest in Beijing for over two years since her husband’s award was announced. Three weeks after a team from the Associated Press managed...
Read MoreThe Post-Democratic Future Begins in China
At Foreign Affairs, Eric X. Li argues that China’s future lies with continued one-party rule, and that the Party’s adaptability, meritocracy and non-democratic legitimacy will carry it forward while the West...
Read MoreHow India is Turning Into China
At The New Republic, Pankaj Mishra rejects the common view of India as a democratic counterweight to China, and warns instead of a “budding likeness […]—the onset, in particular, of an informal authoritarianism in the...
Read MoreChina, Africa and the White Man’s Burden
At The Guardian, Nigerian writer Chibundu Onuzo contrasts the historical entanglements of Western dealings with Africa with China’s relatively unburdened approach. There are cries that China’s is a new imperialism....
Read More2012: A Grass-Mud Horse Year in Review
From Bo Xilai’s dramatic fall from power, to Chen Guangcheng’s daring escape to the U.S. Embassy, to numerous sordid sex scandals, 2012 has been an incredibly eventful year in China. China’s 500 million netizens have provided a...
Read MoreOrgies, Tiananmen & Bo Guagua: Top Posts of 2012
The year 2012 was like no other for China watchers: breaking stories full of political intrigue, sex scandals, natural disasters, murder, and a transition to a new generation of leaders. Which stories were most popular on CDT?...
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