In April, a former contributor to the Beijing Normal University student media outlet 京师学人 (Jīngshī Xuérén, "Capital Scholar") noted that its WeChat ...

Chinese social media and financial news apps are abuzz over new policies restricting the use of “cross-border” brokerage apps and Hong Kong brokerage accounts ...

Public anger and attendant online censorship are running high after a May 22 gas explosion at Liushenyu coal mine in Shanxi province killed at least 82 miners and injured 128 others. While the cause ...

During the recent back-to-back Sino-American and Sino-Russian summits, there was a fair amount of online censorship of sensitive-word combinations, much of it “soft censorship” aimed at controlling ...

Even as Xi Jinping basked in the international media spotlight surrounding successive state visits by Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, one domestic meme painted his position as more precarious. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ai Xiaoming is a documentary filmmaker, author, and women's rights activist. Ai has frequently collaborated with documentary filmmaker Hu Jie. She is professor emerita of literature and women's ...

Consuming the latest gossip, from a distance. Incidents become meme-like "melons," which are then "eaten" by those following along on the internet. As opposed to "surround and watch," which implies ...

Now, you can combat internet censorship in a new way: by toggling the switch below while browsing China Digital Times, you can provide a secure "bridge" for people who want to freely access ...