Reference to Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei (Ài Wèiwei 艾未未). The use of this code lead to the phrase "love the future" being blocked from Weibo search results around June-August 2011.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

今天中午，连云港的吴强接到了辖区洪门派出所的传唤。 洪门派出所民警于12时20分将他带至所内，告知他因违反监视居住规定，对其作出警告处罚——原本是要处以拘留的。 晚上8时30分，吴强再次发来信息：民警用警车在送他回家的路上，已经动真格的了，再发就拘留 ...