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

Responses on Chinese social media to state broadcaster CCTV’s annual Spring Festival Gala last week were less than uniformly rapturous. A deleted post from WeChat public account Selling Apricot ...

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Investigative journalists Liu Hu and Wu Yingjiao were released on bail on Saturday, two weeks after they were detained across provincial borders in apparent connection with their recent report on ...

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This winter, a heating crisis struck rural Hebei after provincial authorities banned domestic coal-burning and then rolled back subsidies for natural gas, leaving many residents facing prohibitively ...

The annual Spring Festival Gala aired on China’s state broadcaster CCTV this week, prompting wonder and worry at its display of kung fu-performing robots, and the traditional yearly storm of grumbling ...

Allusion to Liu Xiaobo, who was prevented from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. Some bloggers who used the term "empty chair" in their posts had their accounts blocked, while others who ...

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 ...