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 ...

A pair of recent publications sheds light on different aspects of generative AI’s use in PRC information control activities and, in one case, on how that can backfire. A paper from Stanford’s Jennifer ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...