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Translation: “Don’t Expect Kindness and Humanity From Totalitarian Dictators”
A brief, fiery essay excoriating totalitarianism has been censored on WeChat, and appears to have precipitated the closure of a Jiangxi-based current- and legal-affairs blog. First posted on the...
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Four Years On, Tributes to Covid Whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang
Four years after the death from COVID of Dr. Li Wenliang, the young Wuhan ophthalmologist who alerted colleagues to the emerging novel coronavirus, tributes to the widely admired doctor continue to...
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Fireworks, Family Fights, Blizzards, and Dragons: CDT’s Archive of 2024 Lunar...
As China’s Lunar New Year holiday continues throughout this week, CDT Chinese editors have collected and republished over a dozen essays, articles, and other content reflecting the zeitgeist of the...
View ArticleQuote of the Day: “People Insist on Using Euphemisms Such as ‘Flexible...
“It’s as if the words ‘layoffs’ and ‘unemployment’ are somehow disgraceful, so instead people insist on using euphemisms such as ‘flexible employment,’ ‘[workforce] optimization,’ ‘slow employment’...
View ArticleSun Liping’s “Three Simple Points” About Reviving the Economy Deleted From...
On February 28, a post by Tsinghua University sociologist Sun Liping about reviving the Chinese economy was deleted from WeChat, continuing a trend toward increased censorship of articles about the...
View ArticleQuote of the Day: “‘Uniform’ Has Been Transformed From a Noun Into a Verb”
A recent altercation captured on video shows an off-duty, uniformed toll-booth employee in Yulin, Shaanxi province, berating a truck driver at a restaurant and trying to force him to eat food from a...
View ArticleLawsuit Against Mo Yan Rejected, but Attacks on Nobel-Prize Winning Author No...
The nationalist blogger who attempted to sue Nobel-Prize winning author Mo Yan for 1.5 billion yuan for allegedly “defaming heroes and martyrs” in his fiction has had his lawsuit rejected by the...
View ArticleWeibo Users Discern Pro-natalist Propaganda in Sina “DINKs” Article
On April 14, Sina News Hot Topics published a lengthy article on Weibo under the clickbait headline “The First Batch of DINKs, Exposed: Where Are They Now, and Do They All Regret Not Having Kids?” The...
View ArticleQuote of the Day: “Not So Much ‘Lying Down’ as Finding It Impossible to Get...
Today’s quote of the day derives from netizen backlash to the Communist Youth League’s (CYL) recent video broadside against “lying down”—referring to the much-discussed phenomenon of people slacking...
View ArticleQuote of the Day, Olympic Edition: “They’re Enjoying Themselves at Our...
As the Paris Olympics holds its star-studded opening ceremony, amid transportation disruptions caused by coordinated arson attacks on three French high-speed trains, Chinese social media interest in...
View ArticleCCTV Broadcast Falls Silent During Queer Scenes in Paris Olympics Opening...
CCTV commentators covering the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics fell silent during a skit hinting at a ménage à trois, a scene inspired by the great French writer Victor Hugo’s line, “The...
View ArticleQuote of the Day: “When We Die, Our Bodies Are Plundered for Parts”
A recent scandal involving the organized theft and trafficking of thousands of corpses that were later processed into bone-graft material for dental procedures has prompted horror among the Chinese...
View ArticleQuote of the Day: “They’ll Stoop to Anything to Reduce the Divorce Rate”
The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs has unveiled a revised draft law that would make it simpler to register marriages and potentially more difficult to divorce. The proposed changes, billed as...
View ArticleAppeals of Rights Defenders Huang Xueqin, Wang Jianbing Denied in Secretive...
The Guangdong Provincial High Court denied the appeals of imprisoned human rights defenders Wang Jianbing and Huang Xueqin in a secretive trial held last week, without notifying their attorneys. The...
View ArticleTranslation: Essays by Two Reporters on the Rewards and Pitfalls of...
Despite this year’s disappointing, propagandistic line-up of winners for the 34th China Journalism Award, some Chinese investigative journalists continue to ply their trade with dogged reporting,...
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