While the effects of government restrictions on China’s film industry (and, increasingly, America’s) have been widely reported, their impact on the country’s film reviewers has received little attention. At The...
Read MoreIn recent months, the Chinese government has emphasized the idea of “cultural reform” and the need for China to generate its own cultural products to compete with those from the West. On February 15, the Central...
Read MoreIn his recent work for the New York Times’ China-focused series “Culture and Control,” new-media journalist Jonah Kessel has been focusing on media control and the Chinese culture industry. In a new post on his...
Read MoreAn article in USA Today describes a soft power maneuver that seems to digitally actualize Hu Jintao’s recent reference to the ongoing “cultural war” between China and the West: “International hostile...
Read MoreOn Google Maps, a scan of Northern China’s Gobi Desert will reveal a scattering of strange and massive geometric figures. These shapes have yielded an array of explanations. Shanghaiist provides a few theories, and also a...
Read MoreActivist Chen Guangcheng and his family remain under house arrest in southern Shandong province, and a stream of supporters continue efforts to gain access to them. As Chen’s birthday (this Saturday, November 12th)...
Read MoreZhang Xiang, an instructor in Computer Security at Xi’an University of Technology, wrote the following in response to threatening messages he received after discussing the Great Firewall in his class. Translated by CDT....
Read MoreIn Time Magazine, Fareed Zakaria takes on China’s increasing inward focus when it comes to business and trade, coupled with nostalgia for all things red: China is on course to become the largest movie market in the world....
Read MoreA rumor in China says that foreign blockbuster movies will not be allowed to be shown until box office receipts for the state-backed CCP history Beginning of the Great Revival top $120 million. As CDT has reported earlier,...
Read MoreThe following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by various central (and sometimes local) government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and...
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