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 ...

In early May, well before the respective visits to Beijing of American President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir ...

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 ...

At The Wall Street Journal last week, departing China correspondent Yoko Kubota described her experiences as "a Japanese person who worked for an American newspaper" in a climate of rising nationalist ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The following themes, and the six covered in part two, are not the “most censored” words of 2023 but rather a retrospective of topics that the Party-state deemed unfit for Chinese eyes, selected by ...

Xiao Meili (simplified Chinese: 肖美丽; traditional Chinese: 肖美麗; pinyin: Xiào Měilì; born 1989) is a central Chinese women's rights activist and feminist since the 2010s. She was born in Sichuan, China, ...

The post below, the latest of several recent translations on the difficulties of navigating WeChat’s unpredictable content restrictions, describes how views of an innocuous post about the TV drama ...