Ministry of Truth: Official Take on Mistresses
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by central government authorities, have...
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Chinese-American Faces Trial in China
A Chinese-American businessman, Vincent Wu, is facing criminal charges in China after a business dispute with Lin Qiang, a former provincial security official. Andrew Jacobs at New York Times reports: That confrontation is...
Read MoreChina Pledges Rural Reforms to Boost Incomes
As part of incoming Premier Li Keqiang’s plan to focus on China’s urbanization, new policies will aim to develop rural regions and narrow the rural-urban divide. From Bloomberg: The government will increase...
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Censorship Vault: Banned Search Results for May 35th and More
This is the last post in this series before the holidays. Normal service will be resumed on...
Read MoreInternet Controls Tighten Under New Administration
As Internet users in China have reported, scaling the Great Firewall of Internet censorship by using VPNs has become increasingly difficult in recent weeks, with several of the most reliable services being blocked. As the...
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Censorship Vault: Darfur, the Beijing Olympics, and More
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Read MoreChina Still Exists; Beijing’s Doomsday Problem Persists
The People’s Republic of China, like the rest of the world, still existed as of 19:30 PST on December 21st, 2012. U.F.O.-watchers had gathered in Hunan, anti-cult organisations had issued reassuring text messages, and the...
Read MoreA Good Year for Chinese-English Translation
At Paper Republic, Nicky Harman celebrates a good year for Chinese-to-English translations, listing twenty books published—mostly—in 2012. OK, I’ve cheated a bit – three of the publications below are poetry, and two others come...
Read MoreWriters Honored for Free Expression Commitment
12 writers from China are among the 41 who received Human Rights Watch’s 2012 Hellman/Hammett grants “for their commitment to free expression and their courage in the face of persecution”. The organisation...
Read MoreExtinction Threatens 40% of China’s Minority Languages
A widespread fear among Tibetans, both at home and in exile, is that their language will die out. Education reforms relegating Tibetan to secondary status in schools are one of the core grievances against Chinese authorities,...
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Censorship Vault: Marriage by Death and More
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
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Ministry of Truth: Neither Negative nor Positive
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by central government authorities, have...
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