On March 25, WeChat announced that since the beginning of the year, it had permanently banned 1,209 accounts and sanctioned more than 60,000 accounts for various violations. Alongside this tightening ...

Last week, educational influencer Zhang Xuefeng passed away suddenly from a cardiac arrest at the age of 41. On Saturday, huge crowds thronged the streets near a funeral home in Suzhou to pay tribute ...

During the “Two Sessions” legislative meetings earlier this month, one of the topics that attracted the most public attention ...

On Monday, the Hong Kong government gazetted amendments to the implementation rules of the National Security Law that would ...

The post below, the latest of several recent translations on the difficulties of navigating WeChat’s unpredictable content restrictions, describes how views of an innocuous post about the TV drama ...

CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message ...

Now, you can combat internet censorship in a new way: by toggling the switch below while browsing China Digital Times, you ...

This Communist Party slogan was heavily used during the Cultural Revolution, an era in which citizens were incentivized to spy on and even falsely accuse family and neighbors of being disloyal to ...

Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) was a firebrand literary critic, poet, and democracy activist. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, just months into an 11-year prison sentence that would eventually ...

Chai Jing is the impassioned journalist known for her viral self-funded documentary on air pollution, "Under the Dome" (Qióngdǐng zhīxià 穹顶之下). Co-released online in February 2015 by Youku and ...

Columnist and pop-psychologist Tang Yinghong employs his wide-ranging knowledge—and his public WeChat account—to analyze a host of social phenomenon in China: the mass appeal of the pollution ...

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