Despite huge leaps in recent decades, rural living standards remain an issue of widespread popular concern in China. A heating crisis in Hebei last winter, for example, became the focus of intense ...

In a brief trial last week in Shenzhen, Xu Jiayin (Hui Ka Yan, in Cantonese), the founder of collapsed real-estate conglomerate China Evergrande Group, pleaded guilty to eight charges including the ...

China’s technical internet controls are complemented and reinforced by public messaging that frames them as necessary ...

Two collections of regulations released by the State Council in recent weeks have stoked concern among multinationals and business executives operating in China that they could be targeted for ...

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

China’s online censorship regime is often associated with overt blocks, deletions, and account bans, but these blunt and highly visible measures exist on a wide spectrum. Toward the harsher end are ...

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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 ...

This month, feminist blogger 三月vulcanus (Sānyuè vulcanus, "March vulcanus") announced that she would abandon her current WeChat account 三月云 (Sānyuè yún, "March Cloud") after a series of temporary ...

The Milk Tea Alliance is an online solidarity movement between pro-democracy supporters in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and Myanmar. It was started in 2020 by activists involved in social movements ...