During the recently concluded “Two Sessions” annual legislative meetings, the National People’s Congress (NPC) passed a new “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” that many scholars and ...

In the run-up to March 8 International Women’s Day, a comedian known as Xiao Pa (full name Paziliyaer Paerhati) had her Weibo account suspended for posting this joke: “I’ve been bedridden for two days ...

In what is becoming an annual event, a spate of bans on the eve of March 8 International Women’s Day has struck numerous ...

The death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a U.S.-Israeli missile strike on February 28 was widely discussed on Chinese social media. Much of this conversation was reflexive, using the event ...

China Digital Times (CDT) is seeking a fundraising consultant. CDT (chinadigitaltimes.net) is a bilingual non-profit media organization that brings marginalized and censored voices from China to the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...