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10 min read 2021-11-27 08:46:21

Translation: What Happened When My Health Code Turned Yellow

China’s “zero-Covid” policy relies heavily on mobile phone apps that display a health code in one of three “traffic light” colors: red,

1 min read 2021-09-29 10:59:22

The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the

1 min read 2021-09-18 03:30:37

“20021” may look like a random string of numbers or a mangled date, but many Weibo users know it as a sign that they are being blocked from

1 min read 2021-08-28 02:46:24

In recent months, a spirited debate about COVID-19 pandemic control strategy has emerged online, but is actively being suppressed through post

1 min read 2021-08-20 11:19:25

The arrival of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in mainland China has led some to reassess the country’s strategy of lockdowns and mass testing.

1 min read 2021-08-07 13:12:29

After many months virtually COVID-free, the highly contagious delta variant has now spread from Nanjing to more than a dozen Chinese cities,

1 min read 2021-07-24 09:55:14

The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the

1 min read 2021-06-25 09:26:50

An anonymous Chinese tech and politics blogger known as program-think (编程随想) has reportedly been detained in China after evading

1 min read 2021-06-23 06:11:35

A Chinese science media platform has suspended operations after being accused of bias against China. PaperClip (回形针), a Beijing-based platform

1 min read 2021-06-22 00:51:04

The Chinese Psychiatric Association de-listed homosexuality as a mental disorder in 2001, effectively de-legitimizing “conversion therapy,” but

1 min read 2021-05-28 04:18:00

Dr. Li Wenliang’s death on February 7, 2020 resulted in an unprecedented spontaneous outpouring of grief on China’s social media. The young

4 min read 2021-04-08 06:02:15

China is in the midst of a push to vaccinate 560 million people—40 percent of its population—by June. However, facing slow vaccine uptake (a

5 min read 2021-03-19 02:37:53

Online censorship has again inspired netizens to stage a collective act of digital disobedience. In this case, a young policewoman was sentenced to

5 min read 2021-03-16 06:06:57

Ideological orthodoxy has long been a top Party priority, and in recent years digital technology has been increasingly utilized by authorities toward

7 min read 2021-02-13 08:06:44

Audio social-networking app Clubhouse has been banned in China since Monday evening. Much has been written in English language media about the