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338 articles matching the search query.
China’s TikTok Blazes New Ground. That Could Doom It. (Published 2019)
The rise of the seemingly innocuous app is forcing Americans to consider a world influenced by a Chinese-backed social media network.
Professors, Beware. In China, Student Spies Might Be Watching. (Published 2019)
In a throwback to the Mao era, China is deploying students as watchdogs against teachers. It’s part of a campaign by President Xi to eliminate dissent.
China Is Exporting Its Anti-Muslim Strategy to India
Muslims in Kashmir may find themselves in a Xinjiang-style dystopia thanks to Chinese technology and Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalism.
I'm a Blizzard gamer. I am boycotting them over their Hong Kong censorship | Dylan Curran
The company won’t change unless we make them. We have to speak in the only language it knows: money
Hong Kong Takes Symbolic Stand Against China’s High-Tech Controls (Published 2019)
The first major place in China to rebel against Beijing’s technologies of control is one of the last not yet fully under their thrall.
Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing
Leak spells out how social media app advances China’s foreign policy aims
China Tells Citizens What They Should Post Online: Xi Jinping Thought
Blood and guts, sex, corruption, and satire are all off-limits to content creators inside the Great Firewall.
Thwarted at Home, Can China’s Feminists Rebuild a Movement Abroad?
A small number of China’s feminist movement’s influential thinkers and organizers have relocated overseas, in search of an environment more hospitable to their activism. Today, though their numbers
Facebook Bans Ads From The Epoch Times (Published 2019)
The social network has struggled to implement a consistent political advertising policy as groups appear able to get around its transparency rules.
China’s Soft-Power Failure: Condemning Hong Kong’s Protests (Published 2019)
Beijing wants greater sway over global public opinion. Instead, its propaganda outlets make Chinese leaders look like bullies.
The “Post-Truth” Publication Where Chinese Students in America Get Their News
College Daily brings its readers news with nationalistic undertones, delivered in a stream of memes and Internet-speak.
China Is Waging a Disinformation War Against Hong Kong Protesters (Published 2019)
In recent days, China has unleashed a barrage of manipulated news meant to undermine the demonstrators and stir up nationalist sentiment.
China Raises Reward for Informants in Tibet
Authorities offer large amounts for information leading to the arrest of Tibetans deemed disloyal to Beijing.
Chinese people didn’t always feel this censored
The 1980s was an extraordinary period of openness and cultural renaissance in China.
Government hits out at China over criminal detention of Australian citizen
Sydney-based writer and political commentator Yang Hengjun is now in a criminal detention centre after being moved from a surveillance centre just ahead of the deadline for authorities to either charge or release him.
The Challenge of Reporting on Women in China, Where Men Control the Narrative (Published 2019)
Amy Qin, the China correspondent for The Times, reflects on reporting in China, where women are losing ground in the push for gender equality.
‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists Are Silenced Under Xi (Published 2019)
Reporters were once a force for accountability in China. But President Xi Jinping has brought about what critics call a “total censorship era.”
A Billionaire’s Fall Spotlights Child Sexual Abuse in China (Published 2019)
The police detained Wang Zhenhua for unspecified “personal reasons,” but officials are calling for an investigation after reports accused him of molestation.
Court in China's Chongqing Jails WeChat Foreign News Service Moderator
Groups of subscribers on the heavily censored WeChat social media platform are shut down, with many accounts closed.
Patriotic Movie Apparently Falls Afoul of China’s Censors (Published 2019)
A big-budget war movie in China seems to be the latest target of a political crackdown on cultural works that many fear is intensifying.
Inside the Chinese censorship rabbit hole
On Chinese social media, Xi Jinping, ejaculation jokes, and the Relevant Organs parody Twitter account are among the subjects which are no-gos. But what occasionally…
Internal memo reveals tighter regulations on Chinese films and television dramas
Internal memo reveals tighter regulations on Chinese films and television dramas
Peking University vs. Yue Xin: The fight continues as Chinese censors go into overdrive
Peking University vs. Yue Xin: The fight continues as Chinese censors go into overdrive
Gay romance ‘Call Me By Your Name’ pulled from Beijing International Film Festival
Chinese fans hoping to see gay romance Call Me By Your Name will be sorely disappointed as last week it was reported that the film has been…
Goodbye, SAPPRFT (but not Chinese censorship)
Last Tuesday, during the National People’s Congress, China announced that it was dismantling its top media regulator, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television…
Chinese social media censors Feminist Voices
Chinese social media censors Feminist Voices
China’s CCTV Spring Festival Gala included a truly shameless Africa skit, featuring blackface
We need to talk about that Africa skit. You know the one. UPDATE: CCTV appears to have removed the skit as a standalone video from…
Sinica Podcast: ‘Critical’ journalism in China, explained by Maria Repnikova
This week’s Sinica Podcast is now live: listen to it now! Outside observers typically view China’s media as utterly shackled by the bonds of censorship…
Why did a Chinese live trivia game get suspended? A: Jiang Zemin
Why did a Chinese live trivia game get suspended? A: Jiang Zemin
State textbook publisher denies censorship of the Cultural Revolution
State textbook publisher denies censorship of the Cultural Revolution
Chinese artist: Censorship stems from ‘bizarre and ridiculous sort of fear’
Translator’s note: The Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture — a prominent international exhibition of visual art, sculpture, murals, installations, architectural proposals, urban thought experiments, and…
Five years in prison for selling VPNs
A The China Project politics news roundup.
Tech titans at Tsinghua, as internet controls ratchet up, again
Jeremy Goldkorn’s selection of the top stories from China on October 30, 2017. Part of the daily The China Project newsletter, a convenient package of China’s business, political, and cultural news delivered to your inbox for free. Subscribe here.
Tensions with Taiwan just got a whole lot worse – China’s latest top news
Jeremy Goldkorn’s selection of the top stories from China on September 27, 2017. Part of the daily The China Project newsletter, a convenient package of China’s business, political, and cultural news delivered to your inbox for free. Subscribe here.
Academics and publishers rebel against censorship requests from China
A summary of the top news in Chinese politics and current affairs for August 22, 2017. Part of the daily The China Project newsletter, a convenient package of China’s business, political, and cultural news delivered to your inbox for free. Subscribe here.
Xinhua responds to viral online essay: ‘No fake lives in Beijing’
A summary of the top news in Chinese society and culture for July 27, 2017. Part of the daily The China Project newsletter, a convenient package of China’s business, political, and cultural news delivered to your inbox for free. Subscribe here.
WeChat, China’s top messaging app, no longer tells users when it censors their messages
Other findings from a new report on WeChat by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab highlight how Tencent’s censorship tools can follow users outside the country.
