Earlier this week, CDT reported on rumors that two major Beijing newspapers, Beijing News and Beijing Times, had been moved under the direct authority of the Beijing Propaganda Department. As the Guardian reports, the rumors...
Read MoreMichael Churchman of Australia National University writes in China Heritage Quarterly about the Confucius Institutes and their policy of only teaching standard, simplified Mandarin Chinese to students around the world: It is...
Read MoreThe Wenzhou train crash has been used as an example by many of how Chinese journalists and netizens can and will defy government censorship orders to share information and emotion online in the wake of a national tragedy. Yet,...
Read MoreMcClatchy’s Tom Lasseter reports on the aftermath of the bombings in Fuzhou, whose perpetrator Qian Mingqi had fought for years to obtain due compensation for the demolition of his property. His story has met with silence...
Read MoreFollowing the government’s decision to loosen the reins on food safety reporting, a spate of reports on unsafe food have appeared in the Chinese media. For example, from People’s Daily: A local resident, surnamed An,...
Read MoreUS trade officials and industry bodies expressed disappointment at China’s failure to relax controls on foreign media imports by the WTO’s March 19 deadline. From the Los Angeles Times: The “U.S. government is...
Read MoreGmail users in China are noticing slow or inaccessible service. Experts suggest this isn’t due to new technology, but rather an effort to quell any whispers of political unrest. Read the article in PC World here: Chinese...
Read MoreA new study for World Resources Report describes recent changes in approach to flood control along the Yangtze River: After nearly a millennium of efforts to control floods in the Yangtze River basin with dikes, polders and...
Read MoreChina Media Project translates a piece from Seeking Truth which appears to be a response to recent calls for freedom of expression: In the eyes of the West, the disintegration of the Soviet Union was a victory. But for Russians...
Read MoreAFP reports that Beijing cadres are going to receive training in how to use microblogs, navigate BBS forums, and read blogs: The city’s Communist Party school is offering the training to “bureau-level leading...
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