Nobel Laureate Mo Yan Hopes for Liu Xiaobo’s Freedom
In a press conference on Friday, Nobel Literature prizewinner Mo Yan gave an unexpected expression of support for fellow laureate Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned winner of the 2010 Peace Prize. Mo’s...
View ArticlePX Protests, Hollow Victories and Forced Demolitions
Last weekend, following an increasingly familiar pattern, protests in the coastal city of Ningbo won the promised suspension of a controversial paraxylene (PX) plant. At China Media Project, David...
View ArticleIn China’s Cyberspace, Dissent Speaks Code
At The Wall Street Journal, CDT’s editor in chief Xiao Qiang and Perry Link describe the use of online slang, such as sardonic honorifics and the “involuntary passive”, to not only sidestep censors but...
View ArticleStriving for Freedom in the Chinese New Year
At The Washington Post, Perry Link and CDT founder Xiao Qiang point out a hollow in Xi Jinping’s “China dream”, between individuals’ material wishes and the “spiritual” goals of the state. What is...
View ArticleCensoring the News Before It Happens
At The New York Review of Books, Perry Link discusses CDT’s ‘Directives from the Ministry of Truth’ series of leaked propaganda instructions: In the end […], none of the parts of [CDT founder and...
View ArticleLawyers Criticize “Straitjacket” for Online Rumors
China’s Supreme People’s Court and Supreme People’s Procuratorate issued a new judicial interpretation on Monday, sanctioning fines or prison time for those profiting from spreading rumors or deleting...
View ArticleReflections on Ten Years of Covering China from Cyberspace
Ten years ago this month, China Digital Times was born with the publication of this post. Xiao Qiang launched the site, then called China Digital News, as a student project at the Graduate School of...
View ArticleCampaign to Smother Tiananmen Anniversary Continues
Rights lawyers Tang Jingling and Liu Shihui are among the latest to be detained as the government seeks to suppress commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown’s 25th anniversary next month. From...
View ArticleXiao Qiang: “From Fart People to Citizens”
In April, CDT Founder and Editor-in-Chief Xiao Qiang delivered a talk at TedxLiberdade in tune with the event’s theme: “The Power of Together.” In his talk, Xiao discusses the Internet’s potential to...
View ArticleBlurred Lines, Drawn Swords: Internet Control Under Xi
Discussing new restrictions on Chinese instant messaging services such as WeChat, Jason Q. Ng notes at China Real Time that the public accounts affected were already being censored behind a “cloak of...
View ArticleChina Clamps Down on Web, Pinching Firms Like Google
China’s online controls have not stopped four of its biggest internet companies from climbing into the global top ten, although further tightening may yet impose economic roadblocks. But The New York...
View ArticleChina Seeks Digital Control, from U.N. to CPU
Over the past year, Beijing has become ever more assertive in promoting “Internet sovereignty”—its right to control the Internet within China’s borders, fitting “brakes” to ensure that it “becomes Ali...
View ArticleWebsite Chronicles Effort to Control Internet Content
For McClatchy, Stuart Leavenworth profiles CDT and the site’s founder, Xiao Qiang: Some 5,900 miles away, in a cottage in Berkeley, Calif., the staff of China Digital Times tries to poke holes in the...
View ArticleTranslation: RFA Interview With Xiao Qiang
As part of their ongoing series “Internet Contest,” Radio Free Asia’s Mandarin Service last month interviewed China Digital Times’ Founder and Editor-in-Chief Xiao Qiang. CDT has translated the...
View ArticleTranslation: “The ‘Coral Reef’ Below the Ship of Chinese Internet Censorship”
In August, Matters News published an interview with CDT founder and Editor-in-Chief Xiao Qiang. The interview, by freelance writer Xiran, examines the events and motivations that led Xiao to become a...
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