Of all the contentious cultural material China's censors could crack down on, an inoffensive 1990s boy band ballad seems like an odd option. China's...
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CATEGORY: China
China’s middle class protesters
A week ago China’s middle class flexed their civic action muscles by taking to the streets in their thousands (reports say up to 12,000) in the...
Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei makes a comeback
Ai: A bird needs to flutter its wings to see if it can fly After nearly two months of silence, artist Ai Weiwei, one of China’s most prominent human...
Iran, China, schadenfreude and the London riots
State media in China and Iran have both offered their two cents in response to the riots that have swept the UK over the past three days. A...
Beijing’s bid to spy on public Wi-Fi users
Beijing district police last month enforced regulations requiring café owners and other businesses to install web monitoring software. The software...
Deadly high speed train crash marks watershed moment for Chinese media
The aftermath of the collision of two high-speed trains near the Chinese city of Wenzhou on 23 July has demonstrated that the limits of free...
Telex: a new tool to crush censorship?
In recent weeks there’s been a big buzz about a new anti-web censorship system called Telex developed mainly by a team of scientists from the...
Coverage of deadly train crash censored in China
Two bullet trains collided on 23 July in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, killing at least 38 people and injuring 192. In a country where people don't...
Who is Tashi Rabten?
A few days ago the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) reported that China had sentenced Tibetan writer Tashi Rabten to four years in prison for...
Ahead of Party anniversary, China poisons the internet
Today, 1 July, is the Communist Party's 90th birthday. In celebration, Chinese web censors have been working feverishly to tighten their control of...
Hu Jia released but not free
After serving a three-and-a-half year sentence for inciting subversion, Chinese activist Hu Jia was sent home on Sunday. But like Ai Weiwei, who...
Ai Weiwei’s jailed colleagues are freed
When dissident artist Ai Weiwei was freed last Wednesday, his four associates were also nabbed back in April, were disturbingly absent. Now it seems...
