Chinese teachers have long complained about being overworked and frequently called upon to perform various “busywork” tasks outside of teaching, such as ...

The invisibly shifting red lines of Chinese internet censorship fuel a buzzing genre of content on how to avoid them. Some posts offer defiant tips on getting ...

Apple announced long-anticipated AI upgrades to its Siri voice assistant this week at its annual World Wide Developers' ...

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 ...

The Browsers Unbounded, launched by the nonprofit organization Lantern, aims to provide a secure bridge for people around the world who want to freely access information. When you toggle the switch in ...

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 ...

Fang Binxing, main architect of the Great Firewall of China. Fang stepped down as president of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2013 due to illness, though he continues his ...

Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) was a firebrand literary critic, poet, and democracy activist. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, just months into an 11-year prison sentence that would eventually ...

Born on September 25, 1975, Ye Haiyan is a social worker and women's and gender rights activist. Also known as Hooligan Sparrow (流氓燕), Ye has since 2005 worked to raise awareness of the plight of ...

Last October, former Global Times editor Hu Xijin lamented—not for the first time—the narrowing of public discourse in China. He argued that mounting ...