The Long Shadow of 2012’s Shifang Protests
Protests against a planned molybdenum copper plant in Shifang, Sichuan were hailed as a triumph of...
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Tensions Show as Tiananmen Museum Opens in HK
After Hu Yaobang died a quarter-century ago last month, thousands of Peking University students...
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‘This Isn’t the Democracy We Want’: Some Chinese Dismayed by Taiwan Occupation
As students and activists begin their third day occupying Taiwan’s Legislative...
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Reflections on Ten Years of Covering China from Cyberspace
Ten years ago this month, China Digital Times was born with the publication of this post. Xiao...
Read MoreBeijing Listens to the People. What Does That Mean?
At The Washington Post last week, Simon Denyer reported on the expansion of Beijing’s efforts to gather data on public opinion, both online and through surveys: [… T]he government is trying to understand public opinion on...
Read MoreCollecting Sensitive Words: The Grass-Mud Horse List
The form for readers to submit tips on blocked keywords will be available at the bottom of all future English Sensitive Words posts. The form itself is in Chinese. In April 2011, CDT Chinese began tracking keywords blocked from...
Read More“Little Hu” Thrown into the Guangdong Fire
Mimi Lau of the South China Morning Post reports that despite his reformist credentials, new Guangdong party chief Hu Chunhua has held his cards close to the vest while navigating a series of early tests: His low-profile, opaque...
Read MoreSensitive Words: Shangpu Standoff, Wu Bangguo
As of March 8, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). Standoff in Shangpu: Protests continue in the Guangdong village, where residents say as much as 33.33 hectars...
Read MoreVillagers Protest Land Grab, Demand Democracy
Police have set up a blockade around the Guangdong village of Shangpu, just 100 kilometers away from Wukan, after residents clashed with thugs they claim were sent by the local communist party chief in connection with a disputed...
Read MoreAll Eyes on New Guangdong Party Chief, Hu Chunhua
Among a slew of other new appointments this week, Xinhua reported that Hu Jintao protégé “Little Hu” Chunhua is to be the new Party chief of Guangdong province. His time at the helm of the economic powerhouse is...
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