CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we ...

As 2025 draws to a close, CDT editors are compiling a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding ...

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 ...

The New York Times’ Chris Buckley reports on the recent emergence of footage from the trial of General Xu Qinxian, who refused to lead the PLA’s 38th Group Army into Beijing to confront protesters in ...

Ermeiyaoxiaodao (@二枚腰小道): GFW (Great Firewall of China) has blocked all Google services, including Google Scholar, which is essential to research. If you think this is unacceptable, we request that ...

Code name for Zhou Yongkang, former public security chief and close ally of fallen Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai; a popular brand of instant noodles. The kāng 康 in the brand name is the same as ...

Code for June 4, 1989, the date of the crackdown on pro-democracy protests around Tiananmen Square. (The military operation began late on the night of June 3.) Ordinarily the event is referred to as ...

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 ...

Ongoing Sino-Japanese diplomatic tensions—touched off last month by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments on Japan’s willingness to defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack—continue ...

当献词变得艰难时，不妨让笔尖停驻片刻——在留白处，读者反而能听见文字背后的心跳。愿其他媒体新年献词，亦能以此为鉴。不必强求“人之意义”的虚名，令献词沦为年度修辞展演。让人于困境中见希望，于幽暗中见光明，此乃“人之意义”真谛，亦为献词之灵魂。